The first book to treat the US's four foremost ecopoets as ecopoets.
~Choice
Scigaj uses his examination of contemporary ecological poetry to mount a direct assault on the way literary theory has been conducted over the past twenty years.
~Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
Will join John Elder's Imagining the Earth as the most important contribution to date to the study of contemporary ecopoetry.
~Lawrence Buell
A rich context for our understading the work and persons of A.R. Ammons, Wendell Berry, W.S. Merwin, and Gary Snyder, four outstanding American poets.
~Psychological Reports
Anyone who things that nature poetry is a leftover mode from a bygone era, or that all nature poets are alike, needs to read this book before we have no nature left.
~Virginia Quarterly Review
Urges readers to distinguish between two kinds of poetry in order to set the stage for an epic intellectual and aesthetic battle.
~Western American Literature