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Jan 7, 2010 · Can Poetry Save the Earth?, John Felstiner's lucid and far-ranging new book, argues that poetry—specifically nature poetry—can be such an ice-axe, breaking through our dulled disregard to reawaken our sense of the vitality and beauty of nature, and therefore our determination to take actions that will preserve it.
- Ann Fisher-Wirth
- 2010
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.
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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.
An anthology of poetry on climate change, curated by Carol Ann Duffy; Essays on ecopoetics by Jonathan Skinner; Submit your haiku to the environment
The linkage between the perilous condition of Earth’s ecological systems and the endangered or neglected state of poetic discourse beyond a coterie of devotees and initiates shapes Felstiner’s...
In the US, a book was published recently called "Can Poetry Save the Earth". I found a story about it on the National Public Radio website. The author of the book, John Felstiner, selected one poem that, he thought, could really save the earth if everyone read it.
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Feb 28, 2009 · Where poetry goes silent, there prime nature lives, unknowable. And “Beauty is nature’s fact,” rhyming slantwise on “not.” Six syllables chasten human presumption without lessening our thrill in face of flora and fauna.
