Can Poetry Save the Earth A Field Guide to Nature Poems 1st Edition by Mr John Felstiner ISBN 0300137508 9780300137507

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ISBN 10: 0300137508 
ISBN 13: 9780300137507
Author: Mr John Felstiner

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.

Can Poetry Save the Earth A Field Guide to Nature Poems 1st Table of contents:

1. Chapter 1: The Roots of Nature Poetry

   • A brief history of nature poetry: from classical to modern times.
   • Early nature poets (e.g., Virgil, John Milton) and their impact.
   • How nature has been depicted in poetry across cultures.

2. Chapter 2: Poets and the Natural World: Early Voices

   • Examining the works of early poets who wrote about nature and the environment.
   • Focus on Romantic poets like William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and John Keats.
   • The celebration of nature as both a spiritual and political force.

3. Chapter 3: Nature Poetry in the Modern Era

   • The shift in nature poetry during the 20th century.
   • Poets like Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, and Mary Oliver and their treatment of nature.
   • The modern emphasis on ecological concerns, environmentalism, and loss.

4. Chapter 4: Ecopoetry: A New Movement

   • What is ecopoetry? Defining the genre and its importance.
   • Ecopoets like Gary Snyder, Wendell Berry, and Alice Walker.
   • The rise of nature poetry with a direct environmentalist message.
   • Ecocriticism: How literature shapes and reflects environmental attitudes.

5. Chapter 5: Poems of the Land: Celebrating the Earth

   • How poets depict landscapes, ecosystems, and the Earth itself.
   • Celebrations of the natural world: forests, oceans, mountains, and the skies.
   • Nature as both a sanctuary and a source of inspiration.

6. Chapter 6: Nature Poems of Loss and Change

   • Poetry addressing environmental destruction, climate change, and the Anthropocene.
   • Poems that confront the loss of biodiversity, pollution, and ecological collapse.
   • The elegiac tone in nature poetry: mourning the loss of natural beauty.

7. Chapter 7: Voices from the Margins: Indigenous and Diverse Perspectives

   • The relationship between indigenous cultures and nature as expressed in poetry.
   • Diverse voices and perspectives on the environment.
   • Exploring poets like Joy Harjo, Diane Glancy, and other writers whose work is influenced by indigenous and multicultural views of the natural world.

8. Chapter 8: Nature and the Urban Landscape

   • How contemporary poets engage with nature in urban settings.
   • Poems that explore the intersection of nature and cities, the urban wilderness.
   • The role of nature in the concrete jungle, and the search for green spaces in modern life.

9. Chapter 9: The Call to Action: Can Poetry Save the Earth?

• The role of poetry in raising awareness and inspiring environmental activism.
• How poets respond to environmental crises and encourage change.
• Nature poetry as a tool for environmental education and advocacy.
• Can the written word help to combat climate change or forest destruction?

11. Chapter 10: Writing Your Own Nature Poems

• Encouraging readers to explore their own connections with nature through writing.
• Exercises for crafting nature poems and reflecting on the environment.
• How to incorporate ecological concerns into personal poetry.

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