The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter 

By Susan Signe Morrison. Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2015.

Tracing the material and metaphoric waste through the western canon, in The Literature of Waste: Material Ecopoetics and Ethical Matter  Morrison disrupts traditional perceptions to understand how we theorize, manage, and are implicated in waste. A major contribution to the growing field of Waste Studies, this book urges the reader to see disposal as the creation of waste literature itself.

Susan Signe Morrison is Professor of English at Texas State University, USA.