![]() | Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems Subjects: American poetry -- History and criticism; Nature in literature; Ecology in literature; Conservation of natural resources in literature; Environmental protection in literature; At a time of environmental crises, poetry can reawaken us to the beauty and fragility of our natural world 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. Sixty color and black-and-white images, many seen for the first time, bear out visually the environmental imagination this book discovers--a poetic legacy more vital now than ever. John Felstiner teaches at Stanford University. (Bowker Author Biography) |
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