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This Compost: Ecological Imperatives in American Poetry, by Jed Rasula.
Rasula attempts the first extended study of the connection between 20th-century American poetry and ecocriticism. Language poets, representatives of formalism, have heretofore had only tenuous representation in politically orientated studies of nature in literature. Rasula negotiates this new connection by virtue of extensive metaphorical comparison of writing to the natural processes of decay giving rise...