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humanimalia-10047	Moe, Aaron	Zoopoetics: A Look at Cummings, Merwin, & the Expanding Field of Ecocriticism	2012	28	.pdf	application/pdf	10188	611	58	As poetics is, in part, the study of what poetry does—what it accomplishes as a verb—zoopoetics provides a theoretical focus to explore what a poem does—as a verb—to our understanding of and relationship with nonhuman animals. Though the fundamental premise for ecocriticism is that all that exists is dynamically interrelated, Bate’s definition excludes the ways nonhuman animals engage the “human other.”	cache/humanimalia-10047.pdf	txt/humanimalia-10047.txt