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| Genre/Form: | Poetry |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Melissa Tuckey; Camille T Dungy |
| ISBN: | 0820353159 9780820353159 |
| OCLC Number: | 1200652684 |
| Notes: | 40028060342 |
| Description: | xvii, 460 s. ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | A small needful fact / Ross Gay -- The nature of nature is to define our nature, or what eco-justice poetry might mean: a foreword / Camille T. Dungy -- Introduction / Melissa Tuckey -- Section 1: La frontera / Sin fronteras: land, culture, possession, and dispossession. Sorrow home / Margaret Walker -- Late shift / Tim Seibles -- What are you? Where are you from? / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Deleuze & Guattari: Making love is not just becoming as one, or even two, but becoming as a hundred thousand / Gregory Pardlo -- Leaving Tulsa / Jennifer Elise Foerster -- Zacuanpapalotls / Brenda Cardenas -- Anchorage / Joy Harjo -- Saguaros / Javier Zamora -- Staying in the flood / Emmy Perez -- summer, somewhere (excerpt) / Daniez Smith -- We who weave / Leconte Dill -- Bones: a city poem / Cheryl Savageau -- Uptown / Alan King -- Native trees / W.S. Merwin -- Ghosts / Francine Rubin -- Crossing / Brian Komei Dempster -- Cleaning / Camille T. Dungy -- Unpeopled Eden (excerpt) / Rigoberto Gonzalez -- How to disappear the stars / Lauren Camp Section II: Instead of flowers: war. Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen -- Overheard in S.E. Asia / Denise Levertov -- For the record / Adrienne Rich -- Cloud watching / Natalie Diaz -- Wi'-gi-e / Elise Paschen -- In California during the Gulf War / Denise Levertov -- Landscape with translucent moon / Jennifer H. Atkinson -- Awe is the entrance / Christi Kramer -- Mappemonde / Philip Metres -- Lunch in Nablus City Park / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The dogs of Ashdod / Zein el-Amine -- If it were / Javier Zamora -- For the missing in action / John Balaban -- You and I are disappearing / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Supreme / Frances Payne Adler -- Confiteor: a country song / Patricia Monaghan -- Descent / Gabriella M. Belfiglio -- Daisy cutter / Camille T. Dungy -- Why I don't mention flowers when conversations with my brother reach uncomfortable silence / Natalie Diaz -- Cousins / Brian Brodeur -- In Jordan's northernmost province / Shara Lessley -- Bamboo / Linda Hogan -- Little fires (excerpt) / Christina Lovin -- Birthday poem, March 31, 1999 / Sarah Browning -- Another day / Sara Goudarzi -- Pomegranate means grenade / Jamaal May -- Register of eliminated villages / Tarfia Faizullah -- Moving still (excerpt) Section III: Little farm, big farm: food, culture, and capital. Harvest song / Jean Toomer -- Focus in real time / June Jordan -- From the field / Lenard D. Moore -- Umpaowastewin / Margaret Noodin -- While they sing they have no names / Lee Sharkey -- Suddenly in grace / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers -- How we live / Valerie Nieman -- Now I pray / Kathy Engel -- Wealth / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke -- Almonds / Elizabeth Jacobson -- harvest / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- after harvest / Quraysh Ali Lansana -- Federico's ghost / Martin Espada -- Sweetgum country / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Monsanto, drunk in the garden / Melissa Tuckey -- Abecedarian yellow / Dan Vera -- Coca-Cola and coco frio / Martin Espada -- Urban warming / Truth Thomas -- The sweet and vinegary taste / Cheryl Savageau -- cutting greens / Lucille Clifton -- Her fruit / Celeste Guzman Mendoza -- To the fig tree on 9th and Christian / Ross Gay -- [poem title in non-Roman script] / Philip Metres -- Detroit / Alison Swan -- Milk / Linda Hogan -- Perhaps the world ends here / Joy Harjo Section IV: Tell the birds: human-animal relations. generations / Lucille Clifton -- The great chain of being / Clare Rossini -- Return / Kathy Engel -- Spider's orb / Katy Richey -- Crossing a city highway / Yusef Komunyakaa -- Blackbody curve / Samiya Bashir -- Mountain lion / Linda Hogan -- Whole notes / Pamela Uschuk -- Whale song / Elise Paschen -- There are days now / Morton Marcus -- I was sleeping where the black oaks move / Louise Erdrich -- ginen the micronesian kingfisher [i sihek] / Craig Santos Perez -- Midwestern zoo / Karen Skolfield -- Hum / Joshua McKinney -- Raining in the fields / Doug Anderson -- 300 goats / Naomi Shihab Nye -- The bee people / Amy Miller -- The barnacle and the gray whale / Cecilia Llompart -- Magnifying glass / Tim Seibles -- Strategy against dying / Monica Sok -- Eviction notice / Brian Patrick Heston -- Albatross / Kevin Simmonds -- The dream of antelope / Dane Cervine -- The parable of St. Matthew Island / Dane Cervine -- Too many / David Baker -- The dogs and I walked our woods / Gretchen Primack -- Serengeti afternoon / Lisa Rizzo Section V: Unquiet air: resource extraction. Alloy / Muriel Rukeyser -- the killing of the trees / Lucille Clifton -- Eloquence of Earth (excerpt) / Kimberley Blaeser -- 2008, XII / Wendell Berry -- Fat / Linda Hogan -- Money / Jane Mead -- Epithalamia / Joan Naviyuk Kane -- Benefit of the doubt / J.D. Smith -- A Hakka man farms rare earth in South China / Wang Ping -- 29 men / Heather Lynn Davis -- Wampum / Honoree Fanonne Jeffers -- New Jersey poem / Maria Mazziotti Gillian -- Snake River IV / Molly McGlennen -- Refinement / Elee Kraljii Gardiner -- In this place / Matthew Shenoda -- Aral / Jaime Lee Jarvis -- Paddling the nickel tailings near Sudbury / Aaron Kreuter -- Ghost fishing Louisiana / Melissa Tuckey -- To Haiti from Mountain Dell Farm / Lisa Wujnovich -- Finding water on Mars / Grant Clauser -- It's what they do / Judith Sornberger -- Looking out over an abyss in Boone County / Beth Wellington -- Lullaby in Fracktown / Lilace Mellin Guignard -- Living by a tank farm cradle song / Vivian Faith Prescott Section VI: To see the Earth: eco-disaster. The corrosive season / Lynn Riggs -- Trained on the hill / Eleanor Wilner -- To see the earth before the end of the world / Ed Roberson -- Makers / Pamela Alexander -- A massive dying off / Camille T. Dungy -- Inundated / Hayes Davis -- Buffalo Creek / Jason Frye -- At the Chernobyl power plant eco-reserve / Jennifer H. Atkinson -- Dance, dance, while the hive collapses / Tiffany Higgins -- Requiem / Melissa Tuckey -- Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow / June Jordan -- The orange alert / Douglas Kearney -- A violet in the crucible / Brenda Hillman -- Did it ever occur to you that maybe you're falling in love? / Ailish Hopper -- Trying to talk with a man / Adrienne Rich -- As if hearing heavy furniture moved on the floor above us / Jane Hirshfield -- Transients / Vivian Faith Prescott -- Malebolge: Prince William Sound / Sam Hamill -- The weather / Hayan Charara -- Typhoon poem / Patrick Rosal -- Water / Dan Wilcox -- atlantis made easy / Evie Shockley -- Deepwater / Saeed Jones -- Foreground, Fukushima / Jody Bolz -- Diary of Sila the Sky God / Hila Ratzabi -- After 2/3 of a village in Papua New Guinea is decimated by natural disaster / Purvi Shah -- Evening / Dorianne Laux -- To keep faith / Karenne Wood -- A great civilization / Dane Cervine Section VII: Taking root: resistance, resilience, and resurgence. Eagle poem / Joy Harjo -- Abstract / Amy Young -- Ode to Stromatolites / Myra Sklarew -- the weight of all things / Randall Horton -- Culture and the universe / Simon J. Ortiz -- After a new moon / Arthur Sze -- Graze a dark field / Sheree Renee Thomas -- No turning back for the soul / Jacqueline Marcus -- What the water knows / Sam Hamill -- Moon gathering / Eleanor Wilner -- Photo of my grandmother running toward us on a beach in Ilokos / Patrick Rosal -- Taking root / Tara Betts -- Burial / Ross Gay -- To hold a meditation / Christian Campbell -- Invocation / Everett Hoagland -- Aubade / Elee Kraljii Gardiner -- Hiking with my father / Ruth Irupe Sanabria -- The peace of wild things / Wendell Berry -- THISTLES in a FIELD / Marilyn Nelson -- Brazos bend / Nancy K. Pearson -- Recovery / Katy Richey -- Thanks / W.S. Merwin -- Freeway 280 / Lorna Dee Cervantes -- What's never wasted / Yael Flusberg -- Take a giant step / Jose Padua -- The seeds talk back to Monsanto / Brenda Hillman -- Set the garden on fire / Chen Chen -- Downriver, Rio Grande Ghazalion / Emmy Perez -- America, I sing you back / Allison Adelle Hedge Coke Section VIII: Plead for me: beyond America. We travel like all people / Mahmoud Darwish -- Fulfillment / Saadi Youssef -- Ama-ar-gi / Dunya Mikhail -- Pomegranates / Tala Abu Rahmeh -- Thrombosis in the veins of petroleum / Taha Muhammad Ali -- Untitled / Dennis Brutus -- Ships / Tolu Ogunlesi -- Sleeping in a makeshift grave / Tanure Ojaide -- Kenya: a love letter / Mukoma wa Ngugi -- 'Satao' / Stephen Derwent Partington -- Snow in Ulan Bator / Jiang Tao -- The day it rained fish and swallows / Kristine Ong Muslim -- The walls / Kazurnari Usuki -- Give us back everything / Yasunori Akiyama -- What should we do? / Hiromi Mishou -- "Microwave" ("Micro-ondas") / Angelica Freitas -- Little farm / Juan Carlos Galeano -- History / Juan Carlos Galeano -- Kyoto protocol / Luis Alberto Ambroggio -- The rivers / Claribel Alegria -- The parrots / Ernesto Cardenal -- New ecology / Ernesto Cardenal -- The price of what you see / Esthela Calderon -- About angels IX / Homero Aridjis -- Celebrate / Jorge Riechmann -- In the middle of the bridge / Kirmen Uribe -- Circle the wagons: in ink: meditation on treaty two / Shane Rhodes -- beware of dog / Daniela Elza -- Spawn / Kim Goldberg -- Sometimes we resist / Stephen Collis -- Hutopia (excerpt) / Alec Finlay -- Turning the ship for home and then the telling / Pippa Little -- Murmuration / David Attwooll -- 17 principles of environmental justice from the First National People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit |
| Responsibility: | Melissa Tuckey, editor ; foreword by Camille T. Dungy |
Abstract:
The first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many cultural traditions.
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