Sustainable Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813121208)

" Focusing on the work of A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W.S. Merwin, and Gary Snyder, author Leonard Scigaj shows that just as a sustainable society does not depreciate its resource base, so a sustainable poetry does not restrict interest to language. Over the past thirty years many poets have shown an increasing sensitivity to ecological thinking. But critics trained in poststructuralist language theory often fail to explore the substance of ecopoetry. Scigaj is the first to define ecopoetry as s

Author: Leonard M. Scigaj
ISBN-10: 0813121205
ISBN-13: 9780813121208
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 05/06/1999
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.37h x 6.37w x 1.08d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/15/1999 pg. 97