Plants In Contemporary Poetry

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Botanical Imagination -- 2 Sacred Ecologies of Plants: The Vegetative Soul in Les Murray's Poetry -- 3 That Porous Line: Mary Oliver and the Intercorporeality of the Vegetal Body -- 4 It Healeth Inward Wounds: Bioempathic Emplacement and the Radical Vegetal Poetics of Elisabeth Bletsoe -- 5 From Stinking Goose-foot to Bastard Toadflax: Botanical Humor in Alice Oswald's Weeds and Wild Flowers -- 6 Consciousness Buried in Earth: Vegetal Memory in Louise Glück's The Wild Iris -- 7 That Seed Sets Time Ablaze: Judith Wright and the Temporality of Plants -- 8 On the Death of Plants: John Kinsella's Radical Pastoralism and the Weight of Botanical Melancholia -- 9 Every Leaf Imagined With Us: Vegetal Hope and the Love of Flora in Joy Harjo's Poetry -- Index