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ecopoet en · NOUN

Etymology

From eco- + poet.

Meanings

1. A writer of ecopoetry.
   • Except for a few ecopoets and visionaries, nearly everyone saw open acreage around San Francisco Bay as prime real estate. 1996, California State Coastal Conservancy, California coast and ocean, volumes 12-14:
   • For ecopoets language is an instrument that the poet continually refurbishes to articulate his originary experience in nature. 2002, David W Gilcrest, Greening the lyre: environmental poetics and ethics:
   • Dorothy's journal entry beautifully captures this new, holistic perspective as a process, offering us a glimpse of not just a poet but an ecopoet at work. 2007, Kenneth R Cervelli, Dorothy Wordsworth's ecology:

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