Ghost Fishing

An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology

Edited by Melissa Tuckey

Foreword by Camille T. Dungy

Title Details

Pages: 480

Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in

Formats

Paperback

Pub Date: 04/01/2018

ISBN: 9-780-8203-5315-9

List Price: $44.95

Ghost Fishing

An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology

Edited by Melissa Tuckey

Foreword by Camille T. Dungy

A gathering of poetry at the intersection of culture, social justice, and the environment

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Ghost Fishing is the first anthology to focus solely on poetry with an eco-justice bent. A culturally diverse collection entering a field where nature poetry anthologies have historically lacked diversity, this book presents a rich terrain of contemporary environmental poetry with roots in many cultural traditions.

Eco-justice poetry is poetry born of deep cultural attachment to the land and poetry born of crisis. Aligned with environmental justice activism and thought, eco-justice poetry defines environment as “the place we work, live, play, and worship.” This is a shift from romantic notions of nature as a pristine wilderness outside ourselves toward recognition of the environment as home: a source of life, health, and livelihood.

Ghost Fishing is arranged by topic at key intersections between social justice and the environment such as exile, migration, and dispossession; war; food production; human relations to the animal world; natural resources and extraction; environmental disaster; and cultural resilience and resistance. This anthology seeks to expand our consciousness about the interrelated nature of our experiences and act as a starting point for conversation about the current state of our environment.

Contributors include Homero Aridjis, Brenda Cárdenas, Natalie Diaz, Camille T. Dungy, Martín Espada, Ross Gay, Joy Harjo, Brenda Hillman, Linda Hogan, Philip Metres, Naomi Shihab Nye, Tolu Ogunlesi, Wang Ping, Patrick Rosal, Tim Seibles, Danez Smith, Arthur Sze, Eleanor Wilner, and Javier Zamora.

These poems record the perspectives of Asian men and black women, newly published poets and cornerstone voices of the twentieth century, working-class Americans and women who work on their knees clearing landmines 'In Jordan’s Northernmost Province.' In fact, the poets represented between these covers represent far more demographic classifications than I could possibly name. The house built in this anthology is one of many interconnecting rooms.

—Camille T. Dungy, from the foreword

Zein El-Amine

Sara Gourdazi

Alan King

Pippa Little

Amy Miller

Katy Richey

Francine Rubin

Kevin Simmonds

Judith Sornberger

Sheree Thomas

Steven F. White

Amy Young

Craig Santos Perez

About the Author/Editor

MELISSA TUCKEY is a poet, writer, and literary activist living in Ithaca, New York. She is the author of Tenuous Chapel and a cofounder of Split This Rock, a national literary organization dedicated to supporting socially engaged poetry.