Topics in Poetry
Topic: Environmental Poetry
Class Information
Instructor: Ronda, Margaret
CRN: 44513
Time: MWF 11:00-11:50
Location: Remote Instruction
GE Areas: Writing Experience
Description
In this course, we will examine twentieth-century North American poetry in the context of planetary environmental crisis. We'll consider how poetic forms, genres, and themes reflect, and reflect on, on material changes to the natural environment at various scales. We will explore the various discourses of cultivation, cohabitation, wilderness, network, pollution, waste, compost, recycling, apocalypse, extinction, and environmental racism that poets take up and rework. We will also read some key works of ecocriticism alongside our primary poetic texts.
Texts
Habitat Threshold, Craig Santos Perez
Doomstead Days, Brian Teare
Corpse Whale, DG Okpik
The Ecopoetry Anthology, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Black Nature, Camille Dungy