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Edited by Brenda Iijima and Evelyn Reilly
Published by Portable Press at Yo Yo Labs (www.yoyolabs.com)
Forthcoming Fall 2008
How can poetic language engage a global ecosystem under duress? How do poetic forms, structures, syntaxes and grammars contend or comply with the forces of environmental disaster? Can language innovation proactively forward the cause of living sustainably in a world of radical interconnectedness? How do issues of geography, race, gender and class intersect with the development of individual or collective ecopoetic projects?
In this collection of essays, poets offer responses to these and other questions concerning poetry and ecological ethics.
Contributors include: Leslie Scalapino, Laura Elrick, Tonya Foster, Julie Patton, Jonathan Skinner, Peter Larkin, Marcella Durand, Tracie Morris, Karen Anderson, Jill Magi, Tina Darragh, Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands, Duriel Harris, Jed Rasula, James Sherry, Jack Collom, Evelyn Reilly and Brenda Iijima.
Forthcoming chapbooks include works by Tonya Foster, Nathaniel Siegel, David Brazil and Shelly Taylor.
Forthcoming sound works include a CD featuring selections by African-American female poets whose work contains orchestration, spoken word, choral elements and technical manipulation of voice, co-edited with Duriel H. Harris. |
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