American ecopoetries of migration explore the conflicted relationships of mobile subjects to
the nonhuman world and thus offer valuable environmental insight for our current age of mass
mobility and global ecological crisis. In Ecopoetic Place-Making Judith Rauscher analyzes the
works of five contemporary American poets of migration drawing from ecocriticism and mobility
studies. The poets discussed in her study challenge exclusionary notions of place-attachment
and engage in ecopoetic place-making from different perspectives of mobility testifying to the
potential of poetry as a means of conceptualizing alternative environmental imaginaries for our
contemporary world on the move.
