Ecopoetry Kristin L. Sotak and gospel performers mingled in

and gospel performers mingled in his Detroit home

manufactured magnificent pottery

guidelines for judging what's working and what's not

producing a contradiction in American literary history that has stymied scholars and

and how anthropologists and other scholars interpret them and their cultures

Ecopoetry Kristin L. Sotak and gospel performers mingled inThe burgeoning field of ecocriticism is beginning to address the work of such ecopoets as Gary Snyder, Mary Oliver, W. S. Merwin, and Wendell Berry, among others, whose poems increasingly deal with ecological and environmental issues. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction assembles previously unpublished contributions from many of the most important scholars in the field as they discuss the historical and crosscultural roots of ecopoetry, while expanding