Earth Shattering: Ecopoems. Selection, introduction, notes and edited by Neil Astley

Bloodaxe, Hexham, Northumberland 2007 (1st publ.)

Earth Shattering: Ecopoems
Earth Shattering: Ecopoems. Selection, introduction, notes and edited by Neil Astley
Bloodaxe, Hexham/Northumberland 2007 (1st publ.)
Größe: 21,5 x 21,5 cm
Seitenzahl: 255 S.
Einband: OBrosch.
Vorl. Spr. Orig.: Englisch
Herausgeber: Astley, Neil
Auswahl: Astley, Neil
Einführung: Astley, Neil
Monographie
Gedichte/Prosagedichte
Buch
- Earth Shattering lines up a chorus of over two hundred poems addressing environmental destruction and ecological balance. Whether the subject is the whole earth (global warming, climate change, extinction of species, planetary catastrophe), or landscapes, homelands and cities (polluting rivers and seas, fouling the air, felling trees and forests), there are poems here to alert and alarm anyone willing to read or listen. Other poems illuminate the ecological balance of the rapidly vanishing natural world. The book presents an ecopicture of the earth in all its diversity exposing the many ways in which the very fabric of our living planet is being torn apart. Earth Shattering’s words of warning include contributions from many great writers of the past as well as leading contemporary poets from around the world, ranging from Wordsworth, Keats, Clare, Hopkins, Hardy and Rilke to A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, John Burnside, Helen Dunmore, Joy Harjo, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Robinson Jeffers, Denise Levertov, W.S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, Peter Reading and Gary Snyder. This was the ?rst anthology to show the full range of ecopoetry, from the wilderness poetry of ancient China to 21st-century native American poetry, with postcolonial and feminist perspectives represented by writers such as Derek Walcott, Ernesto Cardenal, Oodgeroo and Susan Grif?n. [L2150/astl.n/...]

978 1 85224 774 4