Robert Pack and Jay Parini, eds., Poems for a Small Planet: Contemporary American
Nature Poetry (Hanover, N.H.: University Press of New England, 1993).
Provides a wide variety of nature poems and an afterword, “Taking Dominion
over the Wilderness.”
Criticism
Joni Adamson, ed., American Indian Literature, Environmental Justice and Ecocriti-
cism: The Middle Place (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001).
Investigation of American Indian literature from the perspective of environmen-
tal studies that challenges and expands Anglo-American notions of culture and
place.
Karla Armbruster and Kathleen R. Wallace, eds., Beyond Nature Writings:
Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism (Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 2001).
Scholarly essays that challenge earlier criticism related to environmental
concerns.
ASLE Online Bibliography, The Association for the Study of Literature & Envi-
ronment (ASLE) http://www.biblioserver.com/asle/index.php [accessed
22 March 2010).
An extensive and useful resource that provides “citations and abstracts of scholarly
and creative works in various media, as well as public documents, related to the
study of relationships between language and literature, broadly conceived, and the
environment.”
Michael P. Branch and Scott Slovic, eds., The ISLE Reader: Ecocriticism, 1993–
2003 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2003).
Essays examining debates and trends in the field of ecocriticism.
Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, and Frederick O. Waage, eds., Teaching North
American Environmental Literature (New York: Modern Language Associa-
tion, 2008).
Collection of scholarly essays that expands and revises the 1985 version, Teaching
Environmental Literature: Materials, Methods, Resources. The book includes course
descriptions and approaches.
Barbara J. Cook, ed., Women Writing Nature: A Feminist View (Lanham, Md.:
Lexington Books, 2008).
Collection of critical essays on particular writers and works, collectively con-
sidering women’s nature writing in the context of feminist and ecofeminist
theory.
Terry Gifford, Pastoral (New York: Routledge,1999).
Summarizes the history of the genre from its origins to the contemporary period.
Cheryll Glotfelty and Harold Fromm, eds., The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in
Literary Ecology (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1996).
Explains ecocriticism—its practices, concerns, key texts, and changes in it.