Positioned within current ecocritical scholarship, this volume is the first book-length study of the representations of plants in contemporary American, English
This book studies representations of plants in contemporary American, English, and Australian poetry, addressing the relationship between poetic language and th
"How I would like to catch the world / at pure idea," writes Jorie Graham, for whom a bird may be an alphabet, and flight an arc. Whatever the occasion--and her
“A visual treat as well as a literary one…for gardeners and garden lovers, connoisseurs of botanical illustration, and those who seek a deeper understanding
The idea that plants have a mind of their own has been a prominent feature of some Indigenous narratives, literary works, and philosophical discourses. Recent s