Zen of Ecopoetics - Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry

This book is the first comprehensive study investigating the cultural affinities and resonances of Zen in early twentieth-century American poetry and its contribution to current definitions of ecopoetics. It will be of interest to scholars, researchers and students in ecocriticism, literary theory, poetry and religious studies.

List of contents

1. Zen and the ecopoetic imagination 2. Zen resonances in ecocriticism 3. Zen-inflected language and imagination in William Carlos Williams's Paterson and Spring and All 4. The Tao of the non-human: ineffability, agentic assemblages, and ecosemiotics in Marianne Moore's poetics 5. The alchemy of imagination and material reality: nothingness, impermanence, and vital materialism in Wallace Stevens's poetry 6. Zen subversion and planetary entanglement in E. E. Cummings's poetic experimentation 7. The ineffable in modernist American cosmopoetics

About the author

Enaiê Mairê Azambuja is Fellow in Environmental Humanities at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. She completed her PhD in English Literature at the University of Surrey, U.K. Her research and teaching focus on modernist literature and poetry, ecocriticism, ecopoetics, and interdisciplinary studies in literature, philosophy, and religion.

Product details

• Authors: Enaie Maire Azambuja, Enaiê Mairê Azambuja
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.2025
• EAN: 9781032415734
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3241573-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Environmental Literature, Culture and Media
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; NATURE / Ecology, Poetry, RELIGION / Buddhism / Zen, POETRY / American / General, PHILOSOPHY / Zen, Religion: general, The environment, Philosophy: aesthetics, Zen Buddhism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000