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- Yes, poems instilled with wonder at the nature of things stand a chance of prompting consciousness, then conscience, about the ravaged resilient planet we live on.
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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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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.
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Feb 28, 2009 · Yes, poems instilled with wonder at the nature of things stand a chance of prompting consciousness, then conscience, about the ravaged resilient planet we live on.
Apr 13, 2009 · In his new book, Can Poetry Save the Earth?, Stanford professor John Felstiner presents poetry from dozens of English and American writers who have spoken passionately to — and for — the...
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.
Oct 26, 2010 · 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.
- John Felstiner
Apr 7, 2009 · 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.
