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Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist.His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". [2]
Mary Jane Oliver (September 10, 1935 – January 17, 2019) was an American poet who won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize.She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild.
Local nature poets will gather and share their work at the Maywood Ecology Center’s 12th annual Language of Nature Poetry Reading and Discussion.
His poems speak of deep concerns for nature and expose man's cruelty to it. His notable poems include, How Do You Withstand (1966), Body (1976), Mirrored Mirroring (1991) and On killing a tree . He also wrote three plays, titled Princes (1971), Savaksa (1982) and Mr. Behram (1987).
Hayden is also known as a nature poet and is included in the anthology Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry. His poem "A Plague of Starlings" is one of the more famous of his nature-based poems. [14] The poem "Night-Blooming Cereus" is another example of Hayden's depiction of the natural world.
Another of Glück's preoccupations was nature, the setting for many of her poems. In The Wild Iris, the poems take place in a garden where flowers have intelligent, emotive voices. However, Morris points out that The House on Marshland is also concerned with nature and can be read as a revision of the Romantic tradition of nature poetry. [72]
The Nature of Love(1966) Collected Poems 1942-1970 (1971) Alive: Poems 1971–72 (1973) Poets On Record 9 (University of Queensland Press, 1973) Selected works, issued with a 7" record of Wright reading her own poems. Fourth Quarter and Other Poems (1976) The Double Tree: Selected Poems 1942–76 (1978) Phantom Dwelling (1985) Five Senses ...