Abstract
I propose that Gary Snyder’s bioregional project can contribute to recent ecopoetic thought with its argument for poetry as embodied practice and with its definition of community as place-based, transnational, and multi-species. I start by showing continuities between bioregionalism and ecocriticism with the concept of place. I then turn to Snyder’s conceptualization of place as a dialectics between the biotic and sociopolitical dimensions. For Snyder poetry is a situated and embodied practice of investigation and creation of place. It therefore relates with recent discussions on ecopoetics as a critical and poetic practice extended to ecologically oriented forms of community action and activism (Hume and Osborne 2018, 2). As an example of how current ecopoetry practices a poetics of place I briefly discuss Allison Cobb’s Plastic: An Autobiography (2015).
Highlights
I research the contribution of ecopoetics and ecopoetry to epistemologies of the environmental humanities through its engagement and entanglement with the atmosphere
I started this research with my PhD thesis “Atmospheric and Geological Entanglements: North American Ecopoetry and the Anthropocene” (2020)
The activity of community making is relevant in current ecopoetics in two distinct ways: the first is through the creation of a community of poets, artists, scholars, and activists for whom ecopoetics is a critical and poetic practice; the second is in the very writing of ecopoetry as practice of community making
Summary
I research the contribution of ecopoetics and ecopoetry to epistemologies of the environmental humanities through its engagement and entanglement with the atmosphere. Continues to be underrepresented in ecocriticism but in literature studies more broadly” (Hume and Osborne 2018, 5).1 All these works expand previous criticism of nature poetry to include experimentation with form and method in poetry as practices of community making with the multifarious organisms and inorganic agents that coinhabit the planet.
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