Ecopoetry : a critical introduction / edited by J. Scott Bryson ; foreword by John Elder.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword / John Elder -- Introduction / J. Scott Bryson -- Forerunners of Ecopoetry. Regarding Silence: Cross-Cultural Roots of Ecopoetic Meditation / David Gilcrest. Emerson, Divinity, and Rhetoric in Transcendentalist Nature Writing and Twentieth-Century Ecopoetry / Roger Thompson. Landscape and the Self in W. B. Yeats and Robinson Jeffers / Deborah Fleming. William Carlos Williams, Ecocriticism, and Contemporary American Nature Poetry / Mark Long -- Contemporary Ecopoets. Gary Snyder and the Post-Pastoral / Terry Gifford. Earth's Echo: Answering Nature in Ammons's Poetry / Gyorgyi Voros. "Between the Earth and Silence": Place and Space in the Poetry of W. S. Merwin / J. Scott Bryson. Panentheistic Epistemology: The Style of Wendell Berry's A Timbered Choir / Leonard M. Scigaj. The Pragmatic Mysticism of Mary Oliver / Laird Christensen. "Everything Blooming Bows Down in the Rain": Nature and the Work of Mourning in the Contemporary Elegy / Jeffrey Thomson.

Genocide and Extinction in Linda Hogan's Ecopoetry / Emily Hegarty -- Expanding the Boundaries. "The Redshifting Web": Arthur Sze's Ecopoetics / Zhou Xiaojing. In Her Element: Daphne Marlatt, the Lesbian Body, and the Environment / Beverly Curran. Postcolonial Romanticisms: Derek Walcott and the Melancholic Narrative of Landscape / Roy Osamu Kamada. A Woman Writing about Nature: Louise Gluck and "the absence of intention" / Maggie Gordon. How to Love this World: The Transpersonal Wild in Margaret Atwood's Ecological Poetry / Richard Hunt. Primary Concerns: The Development of Current Environmental Identity Poetry / Bernard W. Quetchenbach.