How can poetry engage with a global ecosystem under duress? How do poetic languages, forms, structures, syntaxes, and grammars contend or comply with the forces of environmental disaster? Can innovating languages forward the cause of living sustainably in a world of radical interconnectedness? In what ways do vectors of geography, race, gender, class, and culture intersect with the development of individual or collective ecopoetic projects? Contributors include: Karen Leona Anderson, Jack Collom, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Laura Elrick, Brenda Iijima, Peter Larkin, Jill Magi, Tracie Morris, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Julie Patton, Jed Rasula, Evelyn Reilly, Leslie Scalapino, James Sherry, Jonathan Skinner, and Tyrone Williams. Co-published with Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs How Can Poetry Engage With A Global Ecosystem Under Duress? How Do Poetic Languages, Forms, Structures, Syntaxes, And Grammars Contend Or Comply With The Forces Of Environmental Disaster? Can Innovating Languages Forward The Cause Of Living Sustainably In A World Of Radical Interconnectedness? In What Ways Do Vectors Of Geography, Race, Gender, Class, And Culture Intersect With The Development Of Individual Or Collective Ecopoetic Projects? Contributors Include: Karen Leona Anderson, Jack Collom, Tina Darragh, Marcella Durand, Laura Elrick, Brenda Iijima, Peter Larkin, Jill Magi, Tracie Morris, Catriona Mortimer-sandilands, Julie Patton, Jed Rasula, Evelyn Reilly, Leslie Scalapino, James Sherry, Jonathan Skinner, And Tyrone Williams.--jacket. Blame Global Warming On Thoreau? / Tina Darragh -- Thoughts On Things : Poetics Of The Third Landscape / Jonathan Skinner -- Fully From, All Scarce To / Peter Larkin -- 1eco-logic In Writing / Leslie Scalapino -- Preface To Second Nature : Poetry Of Strained Relationality / Jack Collom -- !gontimeblocks! / Julie Patton -- The Ecology Of Poetry / Marcella Durand -- An Interview With Jed Rasula / Evelyn Reilly -- An Interview With Tyrone Williams / Brenda Iijima -- Human Views Of Nature / James Sherry -- Aurora Afro-americana / Tracie Morris -- Poetry, Ecology, And Art Production Of Lived Space / Laura Elrick -- Spatial Interpretations : Ways Of Reading Ecological Poetry / Marcella Durand -- Thinking Ecology In Fragments : Walter Benjamin & The Dialectics Of (seeing) Nature / Catriona Mortimer-sandilands -- Nature Is A Haunted House : Ecopoetics & Scientific Epistemology / Karen Leona Anderson -- Ecopoetics And The Adversarial Consciousness : Challenges To Nature Writing, Environmentalism, And Notions Of Individual Agency / Jill Magi -- Eco-noise And The Flux Of Lux / Evelyn Reilly -- Metamorphic Morphology (with Gushing Igneous Interlude) Meeting In Language : P As In Poetry, Poetry Rhetorical In Terms Of Eco / Brenda Iijima -- Ecopoetics : An Incomplete Curriculum / Jonathan Skinner & Brenda Iijima. Edited By Brenda Iijima. Includes Bibliographical Information. Includes Bibliographical References. In this riveting and timely collection of essays, interviews, and photographs, 17 contemporary innovative poets weigh in on pressing environmental concerns
