Mary Oliver’s Grass Roots Poetry examines the poetry and essays of Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver. Her writing offers an environmental ethics that is relevant to readers interested not only in poetry but also environmental writing. She neither replicates hierarchical relationships nor romanticizes nature. In situating all as kin while also respecting differences, Oliver creates a grassroots poetics and an environmental ethics that invite readers to rethink our responsibilities and how we interact with others, human and nonhuman, animate and inanimate. Respectful coexistence with differences is necessary for the survival of all.

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Mary Oliver’s Grass Roots Poetry examines the poetry and essays of Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver.

Gratitudes – Introduction: Attending to the Anthropocene: Cultivating Attentiveness – Entering the Conversation: Mary Oliver’s Essays – Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Mary Oliver’s Ecotone Amid Nature Writing and Eco-Poetics – "The Gull Beat the Air with Its Good Wing" – "Such Unforced Love": Mary Oliver Re-thinks Domestication – Conclusion: The Overview – Index.

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ISBN
9781433137648
Publisert
2018
Utgiver
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Vekt
371 gr
Høyde
225 mm
Bredde
150 mm
Aldersnivå
P, UP, 06, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
14

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Biografisk notat

Dee Horne is a professor in the English Department at the University of Northern British Columbia.