Can Poetry Save the Earth?: A Field Guide to Nature Poems
166 PA RT T W O pastime therein.” And God awes Job: “Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook?” Moby-Dick’s pastime in the Atl ...
D. H. LAWRENCE IN TAORMINA AND TAOS 167 Despite all this, “your demonish New World nature” somehow breeds “will ... endurance... ...
168 PA RT T W O And stripes on the brilliant frost of her face, sharp, fine dark rays, Dark, keen, fine rays in the brilliant fr ...
D. H. LAWRENCE IN TAORMINA AND TAOS 169 Peter Matthiessen decades later: “That the snow leopard is, that it is there, that its f ...
170 ot Man Apart. For a 1965 Sierra Club photo book, the environmental activist David Brower took this title from Robinson Jeffe ...
OCEAN, ROCK, HAWK, AND ROBINSON JEFFERS 171 The old ocean at the land ’s foot, the vast Gray extension beyond the long white vio ...
172 PA RT T W O “I’d sooner, except the penalties, kill a man than a hawk.” This rude thought, from “Hurt Hawks,” might turn one ...
OCEAN, ROCK, HAWK, AND ROBINSON JEFFERS 173 tude may have them.” Rich responds for migrant workers’ multitude as against his sol ...
174 PA RT T W O As he aged and his voice grew faint against the noise of progress, Jeffers dug in, “Mourning the broken balance, ...
OCEAN, ROCK, HAWK, AND ROBINSON JEFFERS 175 Turning fifty and struck by Europe ’s imminent barbarism, in other poems he draws on ...
176 n England,” she said in 1943 when the war’s outcome stood in doubt, “One pays a fine for throwing away a used bus ticket tha ...
MARIANNE MOORE’S FANTASTIC REVERENCE 177 few during the 1920s and 1930s, eventually a wide public—her oddness struck first: cock ...
Marianne Moore, Mount Rainier The Rosenbach Museum and Library, Moore XII:E:05. ...
MARIANNE MOORE’S FANTASTIC REVERENCE 179 Her title wades into the body of the poem. No longer half-hidden like mussels, the rhym ...
180 PA RT T W O “The Fish” no marine document but, as Moore said of precision, “a thing of the imagination.” No wonder the conte ...
MARIANNE MOORE’S FANTASTIC REVERENCE 181 defiant edifice— all the physical features of ac- cident—lack of cornice, dynamite groo ...
182 PA RT T W O A riot of metamorphosis, “The Fish” takes after Shakespeare ’s song from The Tempest: Full fathom five thy fathe ...
MARIANNE MOORE’S FANTASTIC REVERENCE 183 “Snake” or her friend Elizabeth Bishop’s “The Fish,” Galway Kinnell’s “The Bear,” Ted H ...
184 girl of eighteen on the Maine coast is fetching back to early childhood—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950). Beside me are t ...
TO STEEPLETOP WITH EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY 185 once attracted Thoreau venturing into Maine wilderness. What ’s rare is her touch ...
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