Plants in Contemporary Poetry: Ecocriticism and the Botanical Imagination (Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture)

Introduction: the botanical imagination -- Sacred ecologies of plants: the vegetative soul in Les Murray's poetry -- That porous line: Mary Oliver and the intercorporeality of the vegetal body -- It healeth inward wounds: bioempathic emplacement and the radical vegetal poetics of Elisabeth Bletsoe -- From stinking goose-foot to bastard toadflax: botanical humor in Alice Oswald's Weeds and wild flowers -- Consciousness buried in earth: vegetal memory in Louise Glück's The wild iris -- That seed sets time ablaze: Judith Wright and the temporality of plants -- On the death of plants: John Kinsella's radical pastoralism and the weight of botanical melancholia -- Every leaf imagined with us: vegetal hope and the love of flora in Joy Harjo's poetry.

• | Author: John Ryan
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Sep 30, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 246 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0367667622
• | ISBN-13: 9780367667627