Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems

Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
ISBN-10
0300155530
ISBN-13
9780300155532
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2009-04-01
Publisher
Yale University Press
Author
John Felstiner

Description

In forty brief and lucid chapters, Felstiner presents those voices that have most strongly spoken to and for the natural world. Poets- from the Romantics through Whitman and Dickinson to Elizabeth Bishop and Gary Snyder- have helped us envision such details as ocean winds eroding and rebuilding dunes in the same breath, wild deer freezing in our presence, and a person carving initials on a still-living stranded whale.

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