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- noun
Poetry with a strongecological message or emphasis.
Etymologies
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eco- + poetry
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Examples
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The huge project I'm working on is an anthology of contemporary ecopoetry, coedited with Laura-Gray Street, that Trinity University Press will publish in a couple of years.
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With Laura-Gray Street she is coediting Earth's Body, an international anthology of ecopoetry in English which Trinity University Press will publish in
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About how an ecopoetry should do all sorts of work and also some about when it isn’t doing any sort of work at all, or what I want to call the “March of the Penguins” problem, where something might seem to be deliberately covering over or ignoring something crucial about environmental crisis.
swoonrocket jms 2009
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