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Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems Hardcover - 2009

by Felstiner, John


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Poems vivifying nature have gripped people for centuries. From Biblical times to the present day, poetry has continuously drawn us to the natural world. In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he demonstrates their force and beauty. In our own time of environmental crises, he contends, poetry has a unique capacity to restore our attention to our environment in its imperiled state. And, as we take heed, we may well become better stewards of the earth.

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.

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  • Title Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
  • Author Felstiner, John
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 440
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Yale University Press, U.S.A.
  • Date 2009-04
  • ISBN 9780300137507

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John Felstiner, from Stanford University, wrote the prize-winning Paul Celan: Poet, Survivor, Jew and Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu.
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