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Distinct from nature poetry, environmental poetry explores the complicated connections between people and nature, often written by poets who are concerned about our impact on the natural world. Poets today are serving as witnesses to climate change while bringing attention to important environmental issues and advocating for preservation and ...
- When The Animals Leave This Place
When The Animals Leave This Place - Poetry and the...
- A Time of Bees
A Time of Bees - Poetry and the Environment - Poetry...
- Lullaby in Fracktown
because today our suns have flared and dropped. Tomorrow...
- Water Devil
Water Devil - Poetry and the Environment - Poetry Foundation
- Once The World Was Perfect
Once The World Was Perfect - Poetry and the Environment -...
- The Pond by Gregory ORR
The Pond by Gregory ORR - Poetry and the Environment -...
- Some Questions About The Storm
Some Questions About The Storm - Poetry and the Environment...
- Palm Desert
Palm Desert - Poetry and the Environment - Poetry Foundation
- When The Animals Leave This Place
Dive deep into John Felstiner's Can Poetry Save the Earth? with extended analysis, commentary, and discussion.
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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.
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
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.
- Julia Bucknall
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.
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Gary Snyder is a poet and essayist as well as a social and environmental activist. He began his career in the 1950s as a member of the Beat Generation (Japhy Ryder, one of the characters in Jack Kerouac’s novel The Dharma Bums, is inspired by
