Writing in the Field

For Further Reading 

Since Writing in the Field contains so many traditions (ecopoetics, poetics of place, necropastoral) that overlap with others (duende, documentary poetics) to name a few, you might notice that some of these names move between and across lineages. 

Here are some poets whose work we admire for their intense connections with the various fields within fields: 

• Louise Erdrich
• James Welch (who was influenced by Richard Hugo).
• Nazim Hikmet
• Antonio Machado
• Pablo Neruda
• Richard Hugo
• Linda Hogan 
• Jenny Johnson, “Pedal”.
• Elizabeth Bradfield
• Camille Dungy

• Anne Carson’s “By Chance the Cycladic People”

• Joe Wilkins
• Arecelis Girmay
• Jen Bervin, SILK POEMS.
• Jody Gladding
•  Juliana Spahr
• C.D. Wright
• Sandra Lim
• Samira Negrouche
• Aimee Nezhukamatil- “Summer Haibun”
• Tommy Pico
• Siobhan Campbell
• Brenda Shaughnessy’s fabulous “I’m Over the Moon,” which confronts archaisms and deep image and turns the metaphor over again and again
• Sean Prentiss’s poem, “Snow, Dawn,” an ode of all one sentence
• Katrina Roberts’ work merges formal with the wild, as in “Estuary” 
• Jonathan Johson, in Terrain.org

Other Suggested Materials 

We recommend checking out some of the following, mentioned in this chapter, as well as some that augment discussions:

• Camille Dungy on Bishop’s “The Fish"
• Muriel Rukeyser’s “Conjugation of the Paramecium” 
• Joyelle McSweeney’s Harriet Foundation blog on the necropastoral.
• Melissa Kwasny
• Ross Gay
• Dorianne Laux’s “A Short History of the Apple”
• CMarie Fuhrman
• Derek Sheffield
• Robert Wrigley 
• Mark Strand, “Keeping Things Whole”
• William Wordsworth
  
• H.D. “Sea Rose”
• H.D. “Oread”
• Emily Dickinson, “A Bird Came Down the Walk"
• Randy Brooks, “Haiku Poetics: Objective, Subjective, Transactional & Literary Theories”
• We recommend reading Lu Chi’s Wen Fu, perhaps the Sam Hamill translation, which you can get from your library. In the meantime, check out this article, The “Poetic Theories of Lu Chi, with a Brief Comparison with Horace's ‘Ars Poetica’”