LEADER 06701nam 2200757Ia 450 001 9910778094303321 005 20230721021724.0 010 $a9786612352744 010 $a0-300-15553-0 010 $a1-282-35274-1 010 $a1-282-08966-8 010 $a9786612089664 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300155532 035 $a(CKB)1000000000764831 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH23050062 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000117167 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11128911 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000117167 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10042755 035 $a(PQKB)10874614 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420567 035 $a(DE-B1597)485025 035 $a(OCoLC)789456680 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300155532 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5292523 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420567 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10348464 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL235274 035 $a(OCoLC)923594633 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5292523 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL208966 035 $a(OCoLC)1027181186 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000764831 100 $a20081118d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCan poetry save the earth?$b[electronic resource] $ea field guide to nature poems /$fJohn Felstiner 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (440 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-300-13750-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tCan Poetry Save the Earth? --$tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tIllustrations --$tPreface The Poetry of Earth Is Never Dead --$tIntroduction Care in Such a World --$tPART ONE --$t"stony rocks for the conies" Singing Ecology unto the Lord --$t"Western wind, when will thou blow" Anon Was an Environmentalist --$t"The stationary blasts of waterfalls" Blake, the Wordsworths, and the Dung --$t"The white Eddy-rose . . . obstinate in resurrection" Coleridge Imagining --$t"last oozings hours by hours" John Keats Eking It Out --$t"Its only bondage was the circling sky" John Clare at Home in Helpston --$t"Nature was naked, and I was also" Adamic Walt Whitman --$t"Earth's most graphic transaction" Syllables of Emily Dickinson --$t"sick leaves . . . storm-birds . . . rotten rose . . . rain-drop" Nature Shadowing Thomas Hardy --$t"freshness deep down things" The World Charged by Gerard Manley Hopkins --$t"O honey bees,/Come build in the empty house of the stare" Nature Versus History in W. B. Yeats --$tPART TWO --$t"strangeness from my sight" Robert Frost and the Fun in How You Say a Thing --$t"white water rode the black forever" Frost and the Necessity of Metaphor --$t"Larks singing over No Man's Land" England Thanks to Edward Thomas, 1914-1917 --$t"the necessary angel of earth" Wings of Wallace Stevens --$t"broken/seedhusks" Reviving America with William Carlos Williams --$t"source then a blue as" Williams and the Environmental News --$t"room for me and a mountain lion" D. H. Lawrence in Taormina and Taos --$t"not man/Apart" Ocean, Rock, Hawk, and Robinson Jeffers --$t"submerged shafts of the//sun,/split like spun/glass" Marianne Moore's Fantastic Reverence --$t"There, there where those black spruces crowd" To Steepletop and Ragged Island with Edna St. Vincent Millay --$t"Gale sustained on a slope" Pablo Neruda at Machu Picchu --$t"the wild/braid of creation/trembles" Stanley Kunitz-His Nettled Field, His Dune Garden --$t"Bright trout poised in the current" Things Whole and Holy for Kenneth Rexroth --$t"I swayed out on the wildest wave alive" Theodore Roethke from Greenhouse to Seascape --$t"That they are there!" George Oppen's Psalm of Attentiveness --$t"surprised at seeing" Elizabeth Bishop Traveling --$t"Why is your mouth all green?" Something Alive in May Swenson --$tPART THREE --$t"care in such a world" Earth Home to William Stafford --$t"The season's ill" America's Angst and Robert Lowell's --$t"that witnessing presence" Life Illumined Around Denise Levertov --$t"the tree making us/look again" Shirley Kaufman's Roots in the Air --$t"that the rock might see" News of the North from John Haines --$t"asking for my human breath" Trust in Maxine Kumin --$t"What are you doing out here/this windy" Wind in the Reeds in the Voice of A. R. Ammons --$t"between the earth and silence" W. S. Merwin's Motion of Mind --$t"bear blood" and "Blackberry Eating" Zest of Galway Kinnell --$t"Kicking the Leaves" Donald Hall and Jane Kenyon at Eagle Pond Farm --$t"I dared not cast//But silently cast" Ted Hughes Capturing Pike --$t"the still pond and the egrets beating home" Derek Walcott, First to See Them --$t"Just imagine" Can Poetry Save the Earth? --$tSources --$tText Credits --$tAcknowledgments --$tIndex 330 $aPoems 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 poeticlegacy more vital now than ever. 606 $aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNature in literature 606 $aEcology in literature 606 $aConservation of natural resources in literature 606 $aEnvironmental protection in literature 615 0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNature in literature. 615 0$aEcology in literature. 615 0$aConservation of natural resources in literature. 615 0$aEnvironmental protection in literature. 676 $a811.009/36 700 $aFelstiner$b John$0174616 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910778094303321 996 $aCan poetry save the earth$93854164 997 $aUNINA