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Title:
The ecopoetry anthology / edited by Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street ; Introduction by Robert Hass.
Author:
Fisher-Wirth, Ann W., editor.

Street, Laura-Gray, editor.
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Publication Information:
San Antonio, Texas : Trinity University Press, [2013]
Call Number:
PS595.N22 E27 2013
Abstract:
"As the critic R. P. Blackmur said, poetry "adds to the stock of available reality." In The Ecopoetry Anthology, editors Ann Fisher-Wirth and Laura-Gray Street present hundreds of poems that add to our reality about the natural world, its beauties and its degradations. This groundbreaking collection has the capacity to transform people's lives aesthetically and politically. Poetry's eloquent and ineffable power can work to enhance our understanding of the world beyond the human and lead us to act with more respect, humility, and stewardship toward the environment. The poets collected here, of wide-ranging talents, backgrounds, and beliefs, speak in many voices to reinforce the most critical story of our time: that we must love and care for the planet and appreciate the integrated biological beauty that sustains us, or lose the only world we've got." -- Publisher's description
ISBN:
9781595341464
Physical Description:
lxv, 628 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
From Song of Myself / Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking / Crossing Brooklyn Ferry / #116/328 / #126/348 / #184/465 / #209/520 / #498/1400 / #537/1593 / An Old Man's Winter Night / The Need of Being Versed in Country Things / Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening / Spring Pools / Design / The Most of It / Directive / Sunday Morning / Anecdote of the Jar / The Snow Man / The River of Rivers in Connecticut / Spring and All / The Sea-Elephant / Between Walls / Raleigh Was Right / The High Bridge above the Tagus River at Toledo / The Tree / Salutation / Ancient Music / from Canto LXXXI / Oread / Sea Iris / The Pool / Shine, Perishing Republic / Hurt Hawks / The Purse-Seine / Carmel Point / The Deer Lay Down Their Bones / The Fish / A Grave / The Paper Nautilus / from The Waste Land / I. The Burial of the Dead / III. The Fire Sermon / Me up at does / Reapers / November Cotton Flower / Metropolitan Nightmare / Repose of Rivers / from The Bridge / To Brooklyn Bridge / The River / Riverbank Blues / The Negro Speaks of Rivers / Daybreak in Alabama / (untitled) / from Paean to Place / Toward an Organic Philosophy / Lute Music / Lyell's Hypothesis Again / Andrée Rexroth / from North American Sequence / Meditation at Oyster River / Eclogue / California / Psalm / The Occurrences / The Kingfishers / West Gloucester / At the Fishhouses / The Moose / San Joaquin / Clouds / The Night-Blooming Cereus / from The Book of the Dead / Alloy / The Dam / Traveling through the Dark / At the Bomb Testing Site / Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow / Poetry, a Natural Thing / A Little Language / Santa Fe Trail / The Heaven of Animals / O Taste and See / Souvenir d'amitié / The Past III / Haze / Corsons Inlet / Gravelly Run / from Garbage / Snowshoe Hare / Gone feral: minor gestures / Thing / Natural History / Dusk / Into the Dusk-Charged Air / For John Clare / Alcove / River of the Canoefish / As Children Know

The Place Poem: Sparrow's Point / Living Where They Raised Me / Birdsong from My Patio / The Big Picture / Arcadian / Wawaskwanmiinan / Unit of Measure / The Book of the Dead Man (Fungi) / Aspens / After the End After the Beginning / Horses / Water / The Hidden Singer / The Peace of Wild Things / To the Unseeable Animal / The Star Field / from A Context of a Wave / April / 21st Century Lecture / The Dead Seal / Birdsong, face it, some male machine / It includes the butterfly and the rat, the shit / The Rapture of Bees / Multi-Use Area / Legacy / from Mermaid's Purse / Outside Fairbanks / Down from the Houses of Magic / A Field of Finches without Sight Still Singing / Freeway 280 / Emplumada / Genealogy / Out with the Monarch, the Vole, and the Toad / The earth is a living thing / The beginning of the end of the world / Grief / Defending my tongue / The killing of the trees / Green Shade / Ruddy Duck / Ecology / m(other) tongue / from Canto for the Birds / Still: Environment / The Rain in Maine / Genocide, Again / Specimens Collected at the Clear Cut / Damascus / House Sparrow at Skara Brae / For I Will Consider the Overlooked Dragonfly / On the rocks / The Blue / Pastoral and Gigue / Praxilla's Silliness / I Like Green Things / September 21 65 / June 17 68 / May 3 71 / [trees green the quiet sun] / The Strange People / The Red Sleep of Beasts / Maize / West Texas / Should the Fox Come Again to My Cabin in the Snow / Then / Watching the Oregon Whale / Elegy / from Dream Cabinet / Out of the Field / Plume / Green Run / The Museum of Stones / Morning on the Island / The St. Louis Zoo

Árbol / Historia / An Intermission / Three Sonnets / They Haven't Heard the West Is Over / Cartography / Field Guide to Southern Virginia / from Of Sum / from Giscome Road / Human Memory Is Organic / Scilla / Witchgrass / Rattlesnakes Hammered on the Wall / Millennial Spring / Evolution / Sea Change / The Cranes / Goldeye, Vole / If the Owl Calls Again / Digging / from She Had Some Horses / My House Is the Red Earth / Eagle Poem / The Sandhill Cranes / Prayer for the Everglades / Palo Alto: The Marshes / Ezra Pound's Proposition / Exit, Pursued by a Sierra Meadow / State of the Planet / Submersible / After My Daughter's Birth, a Late Night Self-Portrait with a Running Mare / Dust: Dad's Days / The Swamp / Blackbird Spring / Practical Water / Request to the Berkeley City Council Concerning Strawberry Creek / A Violet in the Crucible / To Spirits of Fire after Harvest / The Supple Deer / Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight / Articulation: An Assay / Optimism / Inflection Finally Ungraspable by Grammar / Speed and Perfection / For the Lobaria, Usnea, Witches' Hair, Map Lichen, Beard Lichen, Ground Lichen, Shield Lichen / The Last Crows Whose Cries Are Audible Here / Romantic Moment / Wild / Cove / Turtle Watchers / Moving the Woodpile / Fluff / Skykomish River Running / Ziggurats there aren't here, my Sweethearts / [earthearthearth] / from Spring / 4 Emanations / 5 April 13th / from Summer / What the Earth Told Me / 'Unless the Humming of a Gnat Is as the Music of the Spheres / The Assault on the Fields / Long Drop to Black Water / from Dream of the End / The Leaving / Blessed Is the Field / Windfall / The Bear / Daybreak / Burning the Brush Pile / The Millpond / Blackberries / Dream Animal / Blessing the Animals / Flying at Night / Grasshoppers / The Whole Hog / The Wellfleet Whale / The Orgasms of Organisms / Life Is Beautiful

Hummingbird / Law Office / Tooth of the Lion / They Feed They Lion / Our Valley / The Oldest Living Thing in L.A. / Anastasia & Sandman / What My Child Learns of the Sea / Migration South / Offering / From Tobacco Mosaic. Stripping Room ; Lexicon ; Drought ; The Sharecroppers / The Origin / Biogeography / Event One / For a Coming Extinction / Vixen / Nocturne / Recognitions / The Laughing Thrush / Eating a Mountain / Bartram's Trail / Connemara Autumn / Driving to Fort Bragg / Grate, Table Grace / From Muse and Drudge / Negotiations with a Volcano / The Turtle Shrine near Chittagong / She Sang to Me Once at a Place for Hunting Owls : Utkiavik / Tulunigraq : Something Like a Raven / Alligator Poem / Wild Geese / The Lilies Break Open over the Dark Water / Love III / Dearest Reader / Notes for Echo Lake 6 / Notes for Echo Lake 9 / The Natural World / Bulletin from Somewhere up the Creek / The Crows Start Demanding Royalties / Shrike Tree / No Bite / Republic / Hand Over Fist / Dark Night of the Hermit / Justice / Monsoon Eclogue / Aesculapius Unbound / Election Year / My Mojave / "Birds Small Enough" / From Twenty-One Love Poems / Power / From The Spirit of Place / What Kind of Times Are These / Beetles and Frogs / Uncovered Ants

Be Careful / Wave / To See the Earth before the End of the World / City Eclogue : Words for It / The Distant Stars as Paparazzi / Geocentric / Rolling Naked in the Morning Dew / Dear Jeffers / Song of Returnings / The Bromeliad / Nature / I've Always Despised the Wetlands / To the Desert / From All with Ocean Views / Ginen Aerial Roots / From Preterrain / From Tidelands / Ambition : Cow & Microphone / First Verse / Runoff / A Dog's Poetry / Fais Do-Do / The Open Secret of the Sea / A Good Fish / Darwin's Eyes / Some Kind of Osiris / Notes for the Early Journey / Atlantis Made Easy / Near the Bravo 20 Bombing Range / Sighted / Caged Bird / Birds of the Holy Lands / Carnegia Gigantea Monadnock / 5 P.M., Tuesday, August 23, 2005 / Man on the TV Say / Won't Be But a Minute / 8 A.M., Sunday, August 28, 2005 / Looking for Bodies / From Hunting : This Poem Is For Bear / From Burning. The Text ; The Myth / Piute Creek / Milton by Firelight / Riprap / For Nothing / Burning the Small Dead / Wave / For the Children

From Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache / Cow Worship / One Animal's Life / Four Questions Regarding the Dreams of Animals / The Forest / Midnight Oil / An Entangled Bank / First Lessons in Beekeeping / The Angle of Reflection Equals the Angle of Incidence / From Ins and Outs of the Forest Rivers / No Golden Fish Were Harmed in the Making of This Poem / From Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge / Refrain / City Animals / Snow Goose Migration at Tule Lake / The Badlands Said / The River at Wolf / Rain / Chameleon / Cow / Forest Orison / Canning Memories / Ox Herding Lesson / Man in Stream / The Stars / Bamboo / The Petroglyphs at Puakō / Tar / Blackbird / Canal / Not Soul / Johnny Appleseed Contemplates Heaven / Song of the Gourd / From Deepstep Come Shining / From One Big Self / Hardin County / Rural Route / Snow / After Reading Tu Fu, I Go Outside to the Dwarf Orchard / From Chernobyl Eclogue / Ravens at Deer Creek / Anything the River Gives / Why Do the Crickets Sing?
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