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    • Anthropocene, Colin N. Waters, Mark Williams, and Jan Zalasiewicz
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    • Biopolitics, James J. Hughes
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    • Scale, Julie Sze
    • Species, Quentin Wheeler
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Ecopoetics

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by Kate Rigby

“Ecopoetics” is an ecocritical neologism referring to the incorporation of an ecological or environmental perspective into the study of poetics, and into the reading and writing of (mainly) literary works.

This essay may be found on page 79 of the printed volume.

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