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A Field Guide to Nature Poems
Yale University Press
April 2009
On Sale: April 7, 2009
440 pages
ISBN: 0300137508
EAN: 9780300137507
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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