Thinking Continental
eBook - ePub

Thinking Continental

Writing the Planet One Place at a Time

  1. 414 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Thinking Continental

Writing the Planet One Place at a Time

About this book

In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volumecollects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about "thinking continental"—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.

Reckoning with the larger matrix of biome, region, continent, hemisphere, ocean, and planet has become necessary as environmental challenges require the insights not only of scientists but also of poets, humanists, and social scientists. Thinking Continental braids together abstract approaches with strands of more-personal narrative and poetry, showing how our imaginations can encompass the planetary while also being true to our own concrete life experiences in the here and now.

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Yes, you can access Thinking Continental by Susan Naramore Maher,Tom Lynch,Drucilla Wall,O. Alan Weltzien in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Literary Essays. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Illustrations
  6. Introduction
  7. Part 1
  8. A World of Islands
  9. Three Stations along the Ring of Fire
  10. The Deepest Layer
  11. Deep Mapping Communities in the West of Ireland
  12. Where Narratives Met
  13. Imagining the Memory of the Earth
  14. Cacophonous Silence (The Sound of Falling Wildly)
  15. Poetry 1
  16. Meadows and Fireflies
  17. Sonoran Desert
  18. Too Easy
  19. Communion
  20. Strata Songs
  21. Sutra, in Umber
  22. After Taiwan
  23. Birth of a Nation
  24. Encounter
  25. Matters of Geneva
  26. The Course of the Peculiar
  27. TsĂ© Bit’a’í
  28. Konza Prairie
  29. Glaciers, Mountains, Falls
  30. Part 2
  31. Braided Channels of Watershed Consciousness
  32. Plovers, Great Blues, Horned Owl
  33. Superior
  34. Pathways of the Yellowstone
  35. The Proximity of Far Away
  36. What You Take from the Sea
  37. Recontinentalizing Europe
  38. Poetry 2
  39. With a Hurricane, She Climbs Mountains while She Dreams
  40. The Mighty Mississippi
  41. Mississippi Delta Lay Down
  42. Links
  43. By the Sea
  44. Aubade
  45. River Dolphins
  46. Sruth Fada Con
  47. Wanting Choughs
  48. Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park
  49. Portage
  50. Part 3
  51. The Lariat and the GPS
  52. Life on the Western Edge of It All
  53. Return to Finland, Robert Creeley, Continental Drift
  54. Excerpts from COSMOGRAPHY
  55. Poetry 3
  56. Asking Why
  57. The Dark Sky Reserve
  58. Ornithological Perspectives
  59. Spiritus Mundi
  60. Strange
  61. Killer Butterfly
  62. When the Body
  63. What I Keep
  64. War Memorial
  65. Bulk
  66. All Hallows’ Eve, County Mayo
  67. As the Diamond
  68. The Burden of Theology
  69. A Line from Dogen
  70. Contributors
  71. About Tom Lynch
  72. About Susan Naramore Maher
  73. About Drucilla Wall
  74. About O. Alan Weltzien