Routledge Companion to Ecopoetics

Julia Fiedorczuk is a poet, writer, translator, and lecturer at the Institute of English Studies and a cofounder of the Environmental Studies Center at Warsaw University. She created the program for the experimental School of Ecopoetics at the Institute of Reportage in Warsaw. She has published several poetry books, the last of which, Psalms (2017), received the Szymborska Prize, Poland’s most prestigious award for poetry, as well as three novels, short stories and essays in ecocriticism, including Ekopoetyka / Ecopoética / Ecopoetics (with Gerardo Beltrán, Warsaw, 2015). Her work has been translated into over 20 languages, including books in English, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrainian, Lithuanian, Serbian, Chinese and Georgian. Mary Newell authored the poetry chapbooks Re-SURGE and TILT/ HOVER/ VEER and essays including "When Poetry Rivers" (Interim journal 38.3). She is co-editor of Poetics for the More-than-Human-World: An Anthology of Poetry and Commentary. She teaches creative writing at the University of Connecticut.Bernard Quetchenbach is the author of Back from the Far Field, a study of twentieth century American poetry; two poetry collections; and two chapbooks. His essay collection Accidental Gravity was a finalist and honorable mention in the 2017 Foreword Indies Book of the Year contest. "The Man by the Fire," his meditation on a Gary Snyder poem, was selected as the 2019 winner of the O. Marvin Lewis award from Weber: The Contemporary West. He edited The Bunch Grass Motel: The Collected Poems of Randall Gloege, a 2018 High Plains Book Awards finalist. With Mary Newell and Sarah Nolan, he edited Poetics for the More-Than-Human World, an anthology of poetry and commentary from several continents. He was an Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Artist-in-Residence in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest in 2015, and a workshop leader for the Yellowstone Forever/National Park Service Arts-in-the Park program in 2017. He is a professor of English at Montana State University Billings, where he teaches literature, environmental humanities, composition, and creative writing.Orchid Tierney is an assistant professor of English at Kenyon College. She is the author of the collection a year of misreading the wildcats (2019).

• IntroductionSection I. PerspectivesMary NewellChapter 1. The Poetics of the Self-Conscious AnthropoceneLynn KellerChapter 2. The AgenceneH. L. HixChapter 3. Decolonial Praxis/Indigenous Resurgence: Relational Accountability in ‘Kin Study’ PoeticsLinda RussoChapter 4. Planetary PoiesisAaron MoeChapter 5. Lucretius, Extinction Rebellion, and the Poetics of Love and RageEvelyn ReillySection II. ExperimentsJulia FiedorczukChapter 6. Indigenous Poiesis: The Semiotics of Circulation in Villegas’ Maya PoetryCharles Maurice PigottChapter 7. Embodiment as an ‘Ongoing Formal Experience’: New Materialist Encounters with EcopoeticsJoanna MąkowskaChapter 8. Down in Strata: Stratigraphic Poetics and Feminist Literary Engagement in Brenda Hillman’s CascadiaGerald Maa and Ben RutherfurdChapter 9. Cartographical Imagination as an Ecopoetic Mode of Engaging the GlobalGrzegorz CzemielChapter 10. "Not the light / of any evening / but the light / of this evening": Ecopoetics, Ethics and Particularity in the Work of Thomas A ClarkHarriet TarloSection III. Earth and WaterOrchid TierneyChapter 11. Phytopoetics: Human-Plant Relations and the Poiesis of Vegetal Life"John Charles RyanChapter 12. Amazonian Zoophytography: Ecopoetic Writing with Animals and Plants Patrícia VieiraChapter 13. Elegiac Joy: Ross Gay and Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Poetics of the GardenAnissa WardiChapter 14. Riparian Entanglements: an Ecopoetics of the Colonial RiverStephen CollisChapter 15. "Nature’s way of representing the world": Alice Oswald’s Poetry and Poetics of WaterChristian Schmitt-KilbChapter 16. Women Poets Breaking the Waves of the Portuguese SeaNuno Marques and Margarida Vale de GatoChapter 17. "Will plastic make life impossible?: Transpacific Poets Confront Ocean PlasticAaron PinnixSection IV. Waste/Toxicity/PrecarityAdam DickinsonChapter 18. The Work of Reconnection, Japanese Ecopoetry by Rumiko Kora and Ryoichi WagoAyako Takahashi and Judy HalebskyChapter 19. "The machine took me in’: Processing Nuclear Labors in Kathleen Flenniken’s Plume"Nicole M. MerolaChapter 20. Extinction and Re-PlenitudeJoshua SchusterChapter 21. Anti-Atmospheres and Everyday Rare PhenomenaOrchid TierneyChapter 22. "Imperial Debris": the Vietnam War and Mai Der Vang’s Yellow RainZhou XiaojingSection V. Environmental Justice and ActivismBernard QuetchenbachChapter 23. Saboteurial Poetics: Blockades, Machine-Breaking, & Infrastructure from BelowAlexandra Campbell and Fred CarterChapter 24. Witness to the Exchange: Documentary Environmental PoeticsJonathan SkinnerChapter 25. Energy EcopoeticsMargaret Ronda and Kristin George BagdanovChapter 26. "To end again tomorrow": The Virtual Reality Ecopoetics of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World Kaitlin Moore Section VI. Region and PlaceBernard QuetchenbachChapter 27. African EcopoeticsPhilip Aghoghvwia and Emily McGiffinChapter 28. ‘New’ Nature Poetry: An Ecopoetical Reading of Contemporary Pakistani Nature PoetryMunazza YaqoobChapter 29. Ecopoetics and Ecofeminist Poetics in Contemporary ChinaLiansu MengChapter 30. Vahni Capildeo and the Convergence of Ecopoetics and Dougla PoeticsLubabah ChowdhuryChapter 31. Building a Homestead: An Ecopoetic Reading of the Poetry of Paul CelanPaweł PiszczatowskiChapter 32. Country Matters: Introducing Australian EcopoeticsTom BristowChapter 33. Francophone Ecopoetics: The Performativity of the TextGina StammSection VII. Subjectivities/Affects/SexualitiesOrchid TierneyChapter 34. Taken by the Creek: The Queer Ecology of Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against NatureStacey BalkunChapter 35. Entangled Remembrances: Counter-memory and New Materialism in Judith Wright’s Poetry"Rıza ÇimenChapter 36. Indigenous Counter-Narratives: Sámi Poetry Challenging the Mastery of Nature Anne HeithChapter 37. The (Un)Sustainable Self and Post-Human Spaces of Interiority in Contemporary North American and Polish PoetryPaulina AmbrożyChapter 38. It Expresses THEM!: Black Women’s Writings and EcopoeticsCarlyn FerrariChapter 39. Who was ever only themselves?" Cross-border Ecologies of TranslationZoë Skoulding