The first to theorize a true 'hydropoetics', this book examines work by innovative poets such as Juliana Spahr, M. NourbeSe Philip, Charles Olson, Kathleen Fraser, Jeanne Heuving, Susan Howe, Norma Cole, Caroline Bergvall to think about the 'hydro' not simply thematically but also in terms of methodology, material, and practice.

Showing the importance of a hydropoetics as a methodology for writing and reading practice today, it traces the phenomenon of an ecofeminist hydropoetics, examining what it can now mean for writers to consciously participate in the hydropoetic project. Drawing on the author's own practice-based research, it explains what 'hydropoetics' is as well as what it can be.