early morning corn

Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Experimental Nature Poetry

For my last comprehensive exam, I’ll be reading, thinking through, and writing about the following books over the next six months or so. Forgive the awkward wording of the title, which was necessary to get this list approved.

UNITES STATES—

Ashbery, John. Some Trees.
Baus, Eric. The To Sound.
Bronk, William. Life Supports: New and Collected Poems.
Celona, Tina Brown. The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems.
Ceravolo, Joseph. The Green Lake Is Awake: Selected Poems.
Craig, Michael Earl. Can You Relax in My House.
Enslin, Theodore. Then, and Now: Selected Poems 1943-1993.
Fishman, Lisa. The Happiness Experiment.
Gilfillan, Merrill. Undanceable.
Giscombe, C. S. Prairie Style.
Harmon, Joshua. Scape.
Hero, Claire. Sing, Mongrel.
Lessing, Karin. Collected Poems.
Massey, Joseph. Areas of Fog.
Mynes, Jess. Sky Brightly Picked.
Niedecker, Lorine. Collected Works.
Roberson, Ed. Atmosphere Conditions.
Smith, Abraham. Whim Man Mammon.
Swensen, Cole. Greensward.
Taggart, John. Pastorelles.
Tharp, Shannon. Determined by Aperture.
Volkman, Karen. Spar.
Williams, William Carlos. Spring and All.

INTERNATIONAL—

Barros, Manoel de. Birds for a Demolition. Trans. Idra Novey.
Berg, Aase. With Deer. Trans. Johannes Göransson.
Bracho, Coral. Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems. Trans. Forrest Gander.
Chimako, Tada. Forest of Eyes: Selected Poems of Tada Chimako. Trans. Jeffrey Angles.
Erb, Elke. Mountains in Berlin. Trans. Rosmarie Waldrop.
Junzaburo, Nishiwaki. The Modern Fable. Trans. Hiroaki Sato.
Kawata, Ayane. Time of Sky & Castles in the Air. Trans. Sawako Nakayasu.
Ponge, Francis. Selected Poems. Trans. C. K. Williams, John Montague, and Margaret Guiton.
Robertson, Lisa. The Weather.
Trakl, Georg. Poems and Prose. Trans. Alexander Stillmark.

CRITICAL WORK—

Bryson, J. Scott, ed. Ecopoetry: A Critical Introduction.
Felstiner, John. Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems.
Gilcrest, David W. Greening the Lyre: Environmental Poetics and Ethics.
Iijima, Brenda, ed. Eco Language Reader.
Johnston, Devin. Creaturely and Other Essays.
Morton, Timothy. Ecology without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics.
Rasula, Jed. This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry.