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Volume 11 (2004)
• Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

Volume 10 (2003)
Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

Volume 9 (2002) 
Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

 

 

Volume 8 (2001)
Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

Volume 7 (2000)
Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

Volume 6 (1999)
Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

Volume 5 (1998)
Issue 2 (Summer)
Issue 1 (Winter)

 

Volume 4 (1997)
Issue 2 (Fall)
Issue 1 (Spring)

Volume 3 (1996)
Issue 2 (Fall)
Issue 1 (Summer)

Volume 2 (1994-96)
Issue 2 (Winter 1996)
Issue 1 (Spring 1994)

Volume 1 (1993)
Issue 2 (Fall)
Issue 1 (Spring)

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Vol. 1, Issue 1 (Spring 1993)                                          back to top

Introductions

From the Editors

Theory and Criticism

Lisa Lebduska, "How Green Was My Advertising: American Ecoconsumerism"

Michelle Campbell Toohey, "Hildegard of Bingen: The Stars and Countless Words
of Reason"

Gene McQuillan, "The Masquerade of Authority: Hugh Brody's Maps and
Dreams and the Discourse of Cultural Contact"

Patrick D. Murphy, "Grandmother Borderland: Placing Identity and Ethnicity"

Harold Fromm, "Aldo Leopold: Aesthetic Anthropocentrist"

Katsunori Yamazato, "Kitkitdizze, Zendo, and Place: Gary Snyder as Reinhabitory
Poet"

Patti Capel Swartz, "Saving Grace: Political and Environmental Issues and the Role
of Connections in Barbara Kingsolver's Animal Dreams"

William Bonney, "John McPhee's Coming Into the Country: The Frontier as
Commodity"

Sean O'Grady, "Lester Rountree: Vernacular Natural Historian"

William Greenway, "The First Spinning Place: Poetry, Religion, and the
Environment"


Positions: Ecology, Feminism, and Thoreau

Leonard M. Scigaj and Nancy Craig Simmons, "Ecofeminist Cosmology in
Thoreau's Walden"

Leigh Kirkland, "Sexual Chaos in Walden Pond"

Laura Dassow Walls, "Walden as Feminist Manifesto"

Louise Westling, "Thoreau's Ambivalence Toward Mother Nature"


Classroom Practice

Cheryll Glotfelty, "Teaching Green: Ideas, Sample Syllabi, and Resources"

Bill Howarth, "Literature of Place, Environmental Writers"

William Greenway, "Traveling Through the Light: Nature Writing in the Poetry
Writing Workshop"


Reviews

Books Received

Exchanges List

Contributors Notes                                                         back to top

Vol. 1, Issue 2 (Fall 1993)                               back to top

Introductions

From the Editors

Theory and Criticism

Anthony Hunt, "'The Hump-Backed Flute Player': The Structure of Emptiness in
Gary Snyder's Mountains and Rivers Without End"

Christopher Cokinos, "A Hawk in the Margin's Cage: Robinson Jeffers and the
Norton Anthologies"

Gretchen Legler, "Toward a Postmodern Pastoral: The Erotic Landscape in the
Work of Gretel Ehrlich"

Jhan Hochman, "Silence of the Lambs: A Quiet Bestiary"

David Teague, "Green Grass in Yellow Sky: Stephen Crane in Southwest Texas"

Ariel Salleh, "Second Thoughts on Rethinking Ecofeminist Politics: A Dialectical
Critique"


Classroom Practice

Stan Tag, "English 104: The Wilderness in American Life"

David Robertson, Mark Wheelis, and Scott McLean, "The Interdepartmental
Program in Nature and Culture"


Interview

Cassie Kircher, "Ann Zwinger: An Interview"


Reviews

Books Received

Exchanges List

Contributors Notes                                                      back to top

Vol. 2, Issue 1 (Spring 1994)                         back to top   

From the Editors

Theory and Criticism

Julia Martin, "New, with Added Ecology? Hippos, Forests, and Environmental
Literacy"

David N. Cassuto, "Waging Water: Hydrology vs. Mythology in The Monkey
Wrench Gang"

Nancy Pagh, "Emily Carr: The Silent, Awe-Filled Spaces"


Positions: Thoreau

Paul Tidwell, "Academic Campfire Stories: Thoreau, Ecocriticism, and the
Fetishism of Nature"

Ralph Black, "From Concord Out: Henry Thoreau and the Natural Sublime"

Stan Tag, "Forest Life and Forest Trees: Thoreau and John S. Springer in the
Maine Woods"

William Howarth, "Thoreau and the Cultural Construction of Nature"


Positions: Ecocriticism and Institutionalization

Michael Branch, "Ecocriticism: Surviving Institutionalization in the Academic
Environment"

Cheryll Glotfelty, "Response to Michael Branch"

Michael P. Cohen, "Response to Branch's 'Ecocriticism'

Mark Schlenz, "Academe in Wonderland: Ecocriticism and the Survival of
Institutions"

John P. O'Grady, "Unhandling Our Perspective"


Classroom Practice

Margery Cornwell, "A Bird in Hand is a Certainty, but a Bird in the Bush May
Sing: Description of a Literature Course About Humans and Nature Using a
Curriculum of Inclusion"

Ann Woodlief, "American Nature Writing: A Computer and Writing Intensive
Course"


Reviews

Journal Exchanges

Books Received

Contributors Notes                                                            back to top

Vol. 2, Issue 2 (Winter 1996)                           back to top

Patrick D. Murphy, "Editor's Note: Centering Connections"

Essays

Jan C. Dawson, "Landmarks of Home in the Pacific Northwest"

Lee Schweninger, "Reading the Garden in Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper'"

John Paul Tassoni, "Lying with Sea-gull: The Ecofeminist Dialogics of Beauty in
Robinson Jeffers's 'The Inhumanist'"

Jim Tarter, "Collective Subjectivity and Postmodern Ecology"


Positions

Ian Marshall, "The Lorax and the Ecopolice"

Melody Graulich, "Fascist Fishes, Power Rangers, and Rape-Crisis Feminists:
Who Gets to Define?"

Suzanne Ross, "Response to 'The Lorax and the Ecopolice' by Ian Marshall"


Classroom Practice

Jennifer Beigel, "Literature and the Living World: Environmental Education in the
English Classroom"

John E. Ryan, "The Muddy Tablet"

Samir M. Rammal, "Teaching Environmental Literature to EFL Students in
Palestinian Universities"


Notes

Book Reviews

Contributors                                                                   back to top

Vol. 3, Issue 1 (Summer 1996)                        back to top

Special Issue: Ecofeminist Literary Criticism

Greta Gaard, "Introduction"

Theory and Criticism

Greta Gaard and Patrick D. Murphy, "A Dialogue on the Role and Place of
Literary Criticism within Ecofeminism"

Barbara Gates, "A Root of Ecofeminism: ecofe'minisme"

Karla Armbruster, "Blurring Boundaries in Ursula Le Guin's 'Buffalo Gals Won't
You Come Out Tonight': A Poststructuralist Approach to Ecofeminist Criticism"

Stacy Alaimo, "Displacing Darwin and Descartes: The Bodily Transgressions of
Fielding Burke, Octavia Butler, and Linda Hogan"

Kamala Platt, "Ecocritical Chicana Literature: Ana Castillo's 'Virtual Realism'"

Cassandra Kircher, "Rethinking Dichotomies in Terry Tempest Williams's Refuge

Deborah Janson, "In Search of Common Ground: An Ecofeminist Inquiry into
Christa Wolf's Work"


Classroom Practice

John Tassoni, "Deep Response: An Ecofeminist, Dialogical Approach to
Introductory Literature Classrooms"

Greta Gaard, "Hiking Without A Map: Reflections On Teaching Ecofeminist
Literary Criticism"

Patrick D. Murphy, "Graduate and Undergraduate Syllabi: 'Culture and
Environment in Contemporary Women's Prose' and 'Other and Another: Ecology,
Gender, and Culture'"


Book Review

Contributors                                                                 back to top

Vol. 3, Issue 2 (Fall 1996)                                 back to top

Theory and Criticism

Leonard Scigaj, "Contemporary Ecological and Environmental Poetry"

Terry Gifford, "The Social Construction of Nature"

David Mazel, "Environmentalism as Domestic Orientalism"

Paula Willoquet-Maricondi, "African Animism, Ne'gritude, and the
Interdependence of Place and Being in Aime Cesaire's A Tempest"

Jane Hindman, "'I think of that mountain as my maternal grandmother': Constructing
Self and Other Through Landscape"

Creighton Lindsay, "Rhetoric, Ideology, and Twain's River"

Ralph H. Lutts, "John Burroughs and the Honey Bee"

Nandita Batra, "Dominion, Empathy, and Symbiosis: Gender and
Anthropocentrism in Romanticism"


Positions

Paul Lindholdt, "Literary Activism and the Bioregional Agenda"


Classroom Practice

Scott Slovic, "On Teaching Environmental Literature in Japan"

Michael Vella, "Theory, Discourse, Landscape"

Peter H. Kahn Jr. and Ashley Weld, "Environmental Education: Toward an
Intimacy with Nature"

Ruth Blair, "Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony in the context of a course on
'Language, Literature and Environment'"

Patrick D. Murphy, "Indigenous Nature: Native American Texts in Environmental
Literature Courses"


Curriculum

Jim Hagen, "Environmental Humanities Minor at Frostburg State University,
Maryland"


Book Reviews

Books Received

Contributors                                                                 back to top

Vol. 4, Issue 1 (Spring 1997)                           back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"

Scholarly Articles

Kent C. Ryden, "Landscape with Figures: Nature, Folk Culture, and the Human
Ecology of American Environmental Writing"

Barton Levi St. Armand, "The Book of Nature and American Nature Writing:
Codex, Index, Contexts, Prospects"

Steven L. Driever, "The Signification of Sorian Landscapes in Antonio Machado's
Campos de Castilla"

Dimitri N. Breschinsky, "Loren Eiseley in Russia"


Fiction

John Nichols, "A Traffic Violation"


Nonfiction

Ofelia Zepeda, "Where the Wilderness Begins"

Sarah Rabkin, "Coming Around the Bend: Thoughts on Cultivating the
Unexpected"

John Christensen, "War of Words"


Poetry

Ann Fisher-Wirth, "Refusals"; "Ice Storm"; "Branch"; "Fat Mad Robin"

John Daniel, "The Canyon"

Stephen Leteblere, "The Wilderness"; "Leaving"

Patti Willia, "Real Estate"; "Oak"; "The Spider"

Miles Wilson, "Life and Death"; "McKenzie Bridge"; "The View from Frissel Point"

Pattiann Rogers, "Moon Deer, The Vision of Their Making"; "The Eye Has No
Will of Its Own"; "Going for Water and Light"; "He Who Greets with Fire"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                               back to top

Vol. 4, Issue 2 (Fall 1997)                                back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

David Copland Morris, "Inhumanism, Environmental Crisis, and the Canon of
American Literature"

Claire Lawrence, "A Possible SIte for Contested Manliness: Landscape and the
Pastoral in the Victorian Era"

Randall Roorda, "KB in Green: Ecology, Critical Theory, and Kenneth Burke"

Eric Katz, "Nothing to Rely On: Nature and Humanity in the City of Mahagonny"


Interview

Michael P. Branch, "Ecocritics and Earth Warriors: An Interview with David B.
Morris"


Essays

John Calderazzo, "Fire in the Earth, Fire in the Soul: The Final Moments of
Maurice and Katia Krafft"

Rebecca Solnit, "Noah's Alphabet"

Diane P. Freedman, "A Whale of a Different Color--Melville and the Movies: The
Great White Whale and Free Willy"


Poetry

Bruce Berger, "Haunts of the Mirage"; "The Plagiarist"; "Rush Hour: Cottonwood
Marsh"

Mary Kennan Herbert, "Skin, Sin, Whatever"; "The Symbolism of Skin"; "By
Turtle Across the United States"; "In Contemplation of a Diving Beetle"

Kole Ade-Odutola, "Population Pump"; "Rain of Votes!"

Christopher Cokinos, "Preposition, Dispersion"; "Urine Particles Like Angels";
"Carnahan Cove"


Review Essay

Laura Dassow Walls, "Michel Serres: On Thinking a Multiple Earth"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                             back to top

Vol. 5, Issue 1 (Winter 1998)                                  back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

Glen A. Love, "Roderick Haig-Brown: Angling and the Craft of Nature Writing in
North America"

Ann Fisher-Wirth, "'Every Time I See the Ocean': Robert Haas, Loss, and Haiku"

Sara Farris, "American Pastoral in the Twentieth Century: O Pioneers!, A
Thousand Acres, and Merry Men"

Michael Bennett, "Urban Nature: Teaching Tinker Creek by the East River


Essays

Sheryl St. Germain, "Masks of the Heart: Spawning Salmon"

Sheila Nickerson, "Earth on Fire"


Poetry

Efrain Jara Idrovo (trans. Cecilia Mafla-Bustamante), "Weeping for Pedro Jara
(Structures for an elegy)"; "Carry Me in Heart or in Thought"; "Are We Time
Carried by Time?"; "In Love Ages Does Not Exist"

Kevin Walzer, "Drenched"; "Places We Have Left"

Athena O. Kildegaard, "Driving Across Iowa"; "Maybe, Once"

Simon J. Ortiz, "Land and Stars, The Only Knowledge"; "Culture and the
Universe"; "Getting Ready"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                       back to top

Vol. 5, Issue 2 (Summer 1998)                               back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

Monica Weis, SSJ, "Thomas Merton: Advance Man for New Age Thinking About
the Environment"

George Hart, "The Ecology of Crisis in William Everson's The Masks of Drought"

Carol H. Cantrell, "'The Locus of Compossibility': Virginia Woolf, Modernism, and
Place"


Fiction

Stephen Trimble, "On the Back of the Dragon"


Essays

Kathleen Dean Moore, "The Canyon Wren"

Seth Bovey, "Horned Toads, Scissor-Tails, and Mexican beetles: An Appreciation
of the Post-Oak Region of Texas"

Rick Bass, "Into the Shirakamis"


Interview

Bill Stobb, "The Wild into the Word: An Interview with Rick Bass"


Poetry

Homero Aridjis (trans. George McWhirter), "Self-Portrait at Six Years of Age";
"River"; "Black Paradise"; "The Poet's Rivers"; "View of Mexico City from
Chapultepec, Circa 1825"

Janisse Ray, "Bird Banding With the Biologists"; "Bone Deposit"; "Wind
Instrument"; "Indigo Snake"

Shinji Watanabe, "Love Song for the Earth"; "The Wingtrace of the Bird"; "Spell of
a Bird"

Sudye Cauthen, "The Morning After the Tornado"; "Alone, on the River This
Spring"; "Walking Into Firflies at Dusk"

Bernard Quetchenbach, "The Passing"; "Rochester Harbor"; "Northeast"


In Memoriam

Michael P. Branch, "Marjory Stoneman Douglas: 1890-1998"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                    back to top

Vol. 6, Issue 1 (Winter 1999)                             back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

Scott MacDonald, "Ten (Alternative) Films and Videos on American Nature"

David M. Robinson, "Wilderness and the Agrarian Principle: Gary Snyder,
Wendell Berry, and the Ethical Definition of the 'Wild'"

Robin L. Murray, "Deeper Than a 'Spirit of Place': Dorinda's Barren Ground"

Jocelyn Bartkevicius, "Thinking Back Through Our (Naturalist) Mother: Woolf,
Dillard, and the Nature Essay"

Andrew McMurry, "'In Their Own Language': Sarah Orne Jewett and the Question
of Non-Human Speaking Subjects"

Glen A. Love, "Science, Anti-Science, and Ecocriticism"


Fiction

Kent Nelson, "Hawks"


Essays

Linda Hasselstrom, "A New Kind of Park: The Totally Integrated Crawly
Kingdom"

Fred Waage, "The Dump Chronicles"

Jim Papa, "Death on the Wing"


Interview

Rachel Stein, "An Ecology of Mind: A Conversation with Linda Hogan"


Poetry

John Balaban, "The Saigon River; A Tiny Bird; The Carp; Replies; Difficulties at
Love; Chasing Out The Demons"

April Ossmann, "Separations I-IV"

James Jay, "A Refrain on the Colorado Plateau"; "Camphorweed"; "Under the
Shade of the Small Question"

Maxwell Corydon Wheat, Jr., "Edith's Checkerspot"; "Mourning Cloak";
"Naturalist's Walk"

Hugh Dunkerley, "Natural History"; "Hit and Run"; "The Principle of
Indeterminacy"; "Weathered"

John Lane, "Reading Gary Snyder"; "Cirque of the Towers: Wind River Range";
"Solstice Bonfire"; "Antelope Among Cattle"

Brian Swann, "The Island"

Linda Hogan, "Deer Dance"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                          back to top

Vol. 6, Issue 2 (Summer 1999)                                      back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

Kurt Fosso, "'Sweet Influences': Animals and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and
Coleridge, 1794-1800"

Elizabeth A. Lawrence, "Melodious Truth: Keats, a Nightingale, and the
Human/Nature Boundary"

Mark C. Long, "Affinities of Faith and Place in the Poetry of Denise Levertov"

Anthony Lioi, "Coasts Demanding Shipwreck: Love and the Philosophy of Science
in Loren Eiseley's 'The Star Thrower'"

Carol Steinhagen, "Dangerous Crossings: Historical Dimensions of Landscape in
Willa Cather's My Ántonia, The Professor's House, and Death Comes for the
Archbishop"

Ian Marshall, "Tales of the Wonderful Hunt "

John Sandlos, "The Coyote Came Back: The Return of an Ancient Song Dog in the
Post-Colonial Literature and Landscape of North America"

R. Edward Grumbine, "Going to Basho's Pine: Wilderness Education for the
Twenty-first Century"


Fiction

Octavia Butler, "Parable of the Talents, Chapter Four"


Interview

Susan Palwick, "Imagining a Sustainable Way of Life: An Interview with Octavia
Butler"


Essays

Suzi Gablik, "An Unspoiled Valley in Ruins"

K. Wesley Berry, "Awash in Blood"

Stephen J. Pyne, "Old Fire, New Fire"

David Mas Masumoto, "Sweat Equity"

Nancy Lord, "From the Land of Tepee Rings"


Poetry

William F. Fox, "archaeologos," "new sand," "pack rats," "city," "petroglyphs"

Warren Slesinger, "Scratch," "Margin," "Lifeboat"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                                  back to top

Vol. 7, Issue 1 (Winter 2000)                              back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

Jonathan Levin, "'Between Science and Anti-Science: A Response to Glen A.
Love"

Robert Kern, "Ecocriticism--What Is It Good For?"

John Tallmadge, "Toward a Natural History of Reading"

Rochelle Johnson, "Susan Fenimore Cooper's Rural Hours and the 'Natural'
Refinement of American Culture"

William Major, "'Some Vital Unseen Presence': The Practice of Nature in Walt
Whitman's Specimen Days"

Elizabeth Schultz, "Melville's Environmental Vision in Moby-Dick"

Douglas Burton-Christie, "'The Immense Call of the Particular': Czeslaw Milosz on
Nature, History, and Hope"

Elizabeth Dodd, "The Great Rainbowed Swamp: History as Moral Ecology in the
Poetry of Michael S. Harper"


Fiction

Leslie Ryan, "The Mountain"


Essays

Sharman Apt Russell, "The Committee on Unity with Nature"

Randall Roorda, "White Tassell: A Family Trip to Killarney"

Sue William Silverman, "Lake Michigan Night into Morning"


Poetry

Jarold Ramsey, "Thinking Like a Canyon"

Nicole L. Reid, "Pigeon, Grey," "Stillness Can Tart the Blackberries," "Georgia's
Red Poppy"

Russell Kesler, "Harvestman," "Fiction," "Gnatcatcher"

Ted Olson, "Raindrop," "Hungry Tonight," "Mid-Fall"

Nelson C. Sager, "Hawk on a Wire," "Coyote," "You Cannot Love a Desert,"
"Desert Scene"

Deborah Fleming, "Ohio Autumn," "Round Bale," "Possession," "Filly"

Eileen Delehanty Pearkes, "Monogamia," "Lying in Fear," "The Larch," "Elegantine"

Oliver Friggieri, "Silence of Autumn," "The Heart of the Universe," "Lament of
Spring," "Orchid," "The Closed Door"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                    back to top

Vol. 7, Issue 2 (Summer 2000)                               back to top

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

George Handley, "A Postcolonial Sense of Place and the Work of Derek Walcott"

Kate Rigby, "Freeing the Phenomena: Goethean Science and the Blindness of
Faust"

Boria Sax, "The Mermaid and Her Sisters: From Archaic Goddess to Consumer
Society"

Robert Zeller, "The Double Tree: Judith Wright's Poetry and Environmental
Activism"

Pamela Banting, "The Angel in the Glacier: Geography as Intertext in Thomas
Wharton's Icefields"

O. Alan Weltzien, "Rick Bass's Art-Activism Dialectic and Postmodem Ecofiction;
Or, a 'Fiber' Tougher than 'Anything Made of Wood'"

Naomi Uechi, "Emersonian Transcendentalism in Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity
Temple"

Andrew Furman, "No Trees Please, We're Jewish"

Molly Wallace, "'A Bizarre Ecology': The Nature of Denatured Nature"


Forum

Joni Adamson and Rachel Stein, "Environmental Justice: A Roundtable Discussion"


Fiction

Gianni Celati, "The Return of the Traveler"

Laura Conti, "From A Hare with the Face of a Child"


Essays

Sadamichi Kato, "Rediscovering an Ancient Poem to Save a Tidal Flat"

Mark S. Cladis, "On the Importance of Owning Chickens"

John P. O'Grady, "Life at the Cauldron"

Stephen Benz, "Savior of the Snowy Egrets"

Mario Rigoni Stern, "The Shepard"


Poetry

Robert Michael Pyle, "Lullaby for Pattiann," "Sheets on the Line," "Botany Lesson:
Cleome"

Jack Collom, "in the," "Untitled," "Passage," "arse poetica"

Lilace Mellin Guignard, "My Bigfoot Theory of Love," "Some Birds"

Richard Arnold, "The Stars on the Day I Die," "Looking for a Poem (While
Grieving in Kalamazoo) June 1999"

Ann Fisher-Wirth, "Path," "And From the East like a Long Coffin Being Drawn,"
"A Spell for Night Walking," "Happiness"

Tonino Guerra, "My River," "Heaven is Ugly," "Oxen," "Death," "The World is
Beautiful"

Andrea Zanzotto, "A Book of Eclogues," "Through the New Window," "By Now"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                                                   back to top 

Vol. 8, Issue 1 (Winter 2001)                                               back to top

 

Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"

Scholarly Articles

Ursula K. Heise, "The Virtual Crowds: Overpopulation, Space and Speciesism"

Michael Bennet, "From Wide Open Spaces to Metropolitan Places: The Urban Challenge to Ecocriticism"

Scott MacDonald, "Ten+ (Alternative) Films about American Cities"

Hugh, Dunkerley, "Unnatural Relations? Language and Nature in the Poetry of Mark Doty and Les Murray"

Jim Warren, "Whitman Land: John Burroughs's Pastoral Criticism"

Shawn Lowen, "The New Canaan: Abundance, Scarcity, and the Changing Climate of Nature Writing in Nineteenth-Century America"

Richard Dillman, "Imagining the Landscape in Gabrielle Roy's The Road Past Altamont"

Jennifer C. Wheat, "Preserved in Righteousness? Notes on Living and Teaching in Rural Hawai'i"

Terri Casteneda, "Discourses of Islands and Natives in Late 20th-Century Galveston: Symbolic Circumscriptions of Penetrated Space"

Bruce Clarke, "Science, Theory, and Systems: A Response to Glen A. Love and Jonathan Levin"


Nonfiction

Linda Hussa, "Nesting"

Paul Willis, "Development Dreams"

Mark Tredinnick, "The Ground in Between"

Jeffrey Hammond, "The High Places Club"

Rob Hardy, "Patience: Fossil Hunting with Professor Schmidt"


Poetry

Michael McClure, "From PLUM STONES (Cartoons of No Heaven)"

Athena O. Kildegaard, "Spring's Euphony," "Flight, Reflection," "Return to Chewalla"

Terry Gifford, "ENGLISH EARTH WARRIORS"

Jim Papa, "Pilgrim," "Nora," "Autumn Accounting"

Paul Brooke, "Note from the Wilderness," "Animae Riddles," "the interconnectedness of things"

Gyorgyi Voros, "Blink (The Days)," "Where Does Your River Begin?"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors

 

 

Vol. 8, Issue 2 (Summer 2001)                                                back to top


Scott Slovic, "Editor's Note"


Scholarly Articles

Cheryl C. Swift and John N. Swift, "Willa Cather and American Plant Ecology"

Allan Johnston, "Ecology and Æsthetics: Robinson Jeffers and Gary Snyder"

Peter L. Bayers, "Save Whom from Destruction? Alaska Natives, Frontier Mythology,
and the Regeneration of the White Conscience in Hudson Stuck's
The Ascent of Denali (1914)"

Brad Monsma, "Seeing through Stone: Visions of Chumash Rock Art"

Cheryl Lousley, "Home on the Prairie? A Feminist and Postcolonial Reading of Sharon Butala"

Jeffrey Myers, "The Anxiety of Confluence: Evolution, Ecology, and Imperialism in
Conrad's Heart of Darkness"

Anne Milne, "Gender, Class, and the Beehive: Mary Collier's "The Woman's Labour" (1739) as Nature Poem"

Lee Rozelle, "Biocentric Sublimity in Barry Lopez's Field Notes and Wendell Berry's A
Timbered Choir"

Gordon M. Sayre, "If Thomas Jefferson Had Visited Niagara Falls: The Sublime Wilderness Spectacle in America, 1775-1825"

Mary Pinard, "Lorine Niedecker: Environment and a Grammar of Flooding"

David W. Gilcrest, "Rhetorical Redemption, Environmental Poetics, and the Case of the Camperdown Elm"

Matthew Cooperman, "A Poem Is a Horizon: Notes Toward an Ecopoetics"


Nonfiction

Susan Hanson, "Icons of Loss and Grace"

Ken Lamberton, "Adobe, Hawks, and Shadows"

Sheryl St. Germain, "Disappearing Bodies: Fishing for a Brother and a Land"

Michail O'Rourke, "Just Outside"

Ashton Nichols, "Killing a Rattlesnake?"

Greta Gaard, "Family of Origin, Family of Land"


Poetry

Karl Zuelke, "Petting the Bumblebees," "Burial Mound," "Aeolian Plankton"

Paul Lindhold, "The Fox," "Wheat on the Fields," "Captives of the County Fair"

Deborah Tall, "Auroral," "Morning After"

Ronald Wallace, "Restoration," "Asian Beetles," "Corn Snake," "The Snake," "The Turkey," "The Wonderful World"


Book Reviews

Annotated List of Recent Books

Contributors                                                                                back to top

 

 

Vol. 9, Issue 1 (Winter 2002)                                          back to top

George Hart, "Editor's Note"

Scholarly Articles

Kevin Hutchings. "Pastoral, Ideology, and Nature in William Blake's Visions of the Daughters of Albion"

William W. Stowe, "'Busy Leisure': Margaret Fuller, Nature, and Vacation Writing"

Mary E. Wood, "Spiders and Mice: Nature, Class, and the City in Mary Antin's The Promised Land"

Robert Zaller, "Punishing Horses: Animal Cruelty and the Symbolism of Evil in Jeffers"

Allison Bulsterbaum Wallace, "Phenology as Modernist Paradox in Donald Culross Peattie's An Almanac for Moderns"

Boyd Petersen, "Landscapes of Seduction: Terry Tempest Williams's Desert Quartet and the Biblical Song of Songs"

Niall Binns, "Landscapes of Hope and Destruction: Ecological Poetry in Spanish America"

Susan Kollin, "Toxic Subjectivity: Gender and the Ecologies of Whiteness in Todd Haynes's Safe"

Charles Bergman, "Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities"

Ronald L. Grimes, "Performance Is Currency in the Deep World's Gift Economy: An Incantatory Riff for a Global Medicine Show"

Maxine Sheets-Johnstone, "Descriptive Foundations"


Nonfiction

Jill Carpenter, "Caravans"

Lisa Knopp, "Mammoth Bones"

Robert Murray Davis, "Holding Back the Desert"

Bruce Allen, "Endurance"


Poetry

Chris Agee, "Time"

Ted Olson, "Looking For Deer"

Maria Melendez, "One-Minute Wail," "Poeta Falsa"

Bill Yake," "Counting Deformities," "Fish Line," "Passing Through"

Lex Runciman, "Entymology, July," "WASP," "Pacific Water, Coastal Air," "One Time," "Morning Walk with Gerard Manley Hopkins"


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Vol. 9, Issue 2 (Summer 2002)

George Hart, "Editor's Note"

Scholarly Articles

Lance Newman, "Marxism and Ecocriticism"

Joseph Carroll, "Organism, Environment, and Literary Representation"

Cynthia J. Miller, "The Essence of Home: Landscape Images and the Construction of National
Identity Among Tamil Immigrants"

Andrew Hazucha, "Neither Deep Nor Shallow But National: Eco-Nationalism in Wordsworth's
Guide to the Lakes"

Dimitri N. Breschinsky, "Reaching Beyond the Bridge: Time's Arrow in the Works of Loren Eisely"

Rhoda M. Love, "Driftwood Valley: Epitaph for a Wilderness, New Life for a Literary
Classic"

Dan Wylie, "The Anthropomorphic Ethic: Fiction and the Animal Mind in Virginia Woolf's Flush and Barbara Gowdy's The White Bone"

Pia Moller, "The Unsettled Undercurrents of Hedon Road: The Reproduction of Dynastic
Privilege and the Politics of Environmental Management in Nicola Griffith's Slow River"

Gregory Fraser, "The Language of Nature, the Nature of Language: Richard Hugo's
Eco-Poetics"

Terry Gifford, "'The Charged Silence of a Summit' in Contemporary Mountaineering Poetry"

Nonfiction

Sydney Landon Plum, "Two Geese and a Duck on a Pond in Winter"

Maximilian S. Werner, "Black River Dreams"

Anthony Nanson, "Borgoria"

Eric Dieterle, "Wasteland or Sanctuary?"

Sara Baker Michalak, "Winter Flower"

Poetry

Ione O'Hara, "Quail," "Cowan's Ford Refuge," "Red-Tailed Hawk"

Neil Nakadate, "Approaching Delicate Arch," "At Dead Horse Point"

David Taylor, "Coyote," "San Juan Spring"

Tami Haaland, "Capture," "Chance," "Experiment"

Jim Peterson, "Rain," "Walnut," "Stalking the Wild Cabbage," "The Fall"

Brian Swann, "Plant Mind," "Trees," "Sunset"


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Vol. 10, Issue 1 (Winter 2003)                                    back to top

Contents

Editor's Note
Scott Slovic

Scholarly Articles

How Sustainable is the Idea of Sustainability?
John P. O'Grady

"From So Simple a Beginning": Evolutionary Origins of US Nature Writing
Jean Arnold

History and Ecology: The Poetry of Les Murray and Gary Snyder
Gary Clark

The Exploitation of Human and Non-Human Nature in Peter Greenaway's A Zed and Two Noughts
Paula Willoquet-Maricondi

Snowstorms, Shipwrecks, and Scorching Heat: The Climates of Eighteenth-Century Laboring-Class Locodescriptive Poetry
Bridget Keegan

Ecofeminism and the Father of English Poetry: Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls
Lesley Kordecki

Breathing Books, Deranged Bodies: Reading and Writing Landscapes in the Poetry of Harry Thurston
Lance La Rocque

Writing the Waves, Sounding the Depths: Water as Metaphor and Muse
Pamela J. Mittlefehldt

Wilderness and Clearing: Thoreau, Heidegger, and the Poetic
Ronald P Morrison

"The Best Wild Music of the Forest": Marianne Moore's "An Octopus"
Vicki Graham

Interview

The Voice of Experience: An Interview with John Elder
Laird Christensen

Nonfiction

"Clean as a Cow That Calves": My Antonia, Plainsong, and the Semiotics of Birth
Ann Fisher-Wirth

Confessions of a Vicarious Backpacker
Charles Mitchell


Drifting and Turning
Liao Hong-Ji [translated by Martin Mullaney and Su Chiu-hua]


Poetry

Home
The Body of the Lord
John Leax

How to Begin Thinking About the Mississippi Delta
Squatter, Bayou Cocoudrie
Beth Spencer Cummings

The Language of Light
Night in the Foothills (Western Theme)
Coast Scenes, Sonoma County
Tim Hunt

Sheep and Stars
Ghost Dance
Gary Short

Sycamore
Nightwalker
Eric Trethewey

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Vol. 10, Issue 2 (Summer 2003)                                        back to top

Contents

Editor's Note
Scott Slovic

Scholarly Articles

Geocentric Ecocriticism
Robert Wess

Organic and Inorganic Bodies in the Age of Goethe: An Ecocritical Reading of Ludwig Tieck's "Rune Mountain" and the Earth Sciences
Heather I. Sullivan

Revisioning Our Views of "Nature" Through an Examination of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac
Tim B. Rogers

Environmental Decline and Christian Contemplation
Mark Muldoon

Some Dynamics of Literary Placemaking: An Australian Perspective
Bruce Bennett

Emersonian Science Studies and the Fate of Ecocriticism
Michael Lundblad


Nonfiction

Finis/Genesis
Kathleen Dean Moore

When Clouds Take on a Life of Their Own
John Hay

Breath of Life-Breath of Death
Michael Engelhard

The Tale of a Cuban Immigrant
Andrew Furman

The Rich Coast
Jeffrey Thomson

The Mountains Rise, the Rivers Sing, the People Dance
Tommy Peterson

The American Nomad: Truths and Fictions
Robert Jackson

Academic Treatise or Personal Essay? Reflecting on Rival (?) Discursive Modes for Place and Nature
Peter Hay

That Islanders Speak, and Others Hear . . .
Peter Hay

The Cat Fable
Peter Wessel Zapffe, translated by Werner Bigell

Farewell with Gausta
Peter Wessel Zapffe, translated by Werner Bigell

The Little Maple Tree
Fred Jüssi, translated by Krista Mits

The Thistle
Fred Jüssi, translated by Krista Mits

The Gatecrasher
Fred Jüssi, translated by Krista Mits

Are All the Isles the Same?
Haide-Ene Rebassoo, translated by Tiiu Speek


Poetry

Elizabeth Dodd
Roadcut Disconformity
Narrative Sequence with Landscape
The Elimination of Ground
Pine Tree Bower My Prism

Jim Papa
Catechism
Common Yellow-Throat
The Laughter of Terns

Chris Anderson
Thistledown
Night Tree
Enormous Roommates
Scat
Sparrow Hawk

Susan Maurer
Vestpocket Grave for Mendez, verdito, 11th & A

Patricia Monaghan
Tiddy Mun Is Gone
Storm Lessons

Susan Sink
Atlantic
Mount Rainier

Gunnar D. Hansson, translated by Henrik Otterberg
Side Shoot, Main Stem

Eino Leino, translated by Bruce and Tiina Carlson
Nocturne

Janis Baltvilks, translated by Rita L. Berzins
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Vol. 11, Issue 1 (Winter 2004)                                                back to top

Contents

Editor's Note
Scott Slovic

Scholarly Articles

Ecology, Literature, and the New World Disorder
Gary Snyder

"Sympathy between man and nature": Landscape and Loss in Synge's Riders to the Sea
Joy Kennedy

William Wordsworth and Leslie Marmon Silko: Toward an Ecofeminist Future
Matthew Teorey

William Bartram's Travels and the Rhetoric of Ecological Communities
Matthew Wynn Sivils

Postmodern Pastoral, Advertising, and the Masque of Technology
Scott Hess

Free Riding on Eiseley's Star Thrower, Thoreau's Huckleberry Patch, and Havel's Streetcar in the
Local and Global Commons
Jeffrey Wagner

Animal Economies: The Lives of St. Francis in Their Medieval Contexts
Lis a J. Kiser


Classics of Environmental Literature

John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra (1911)
Michael P. Branch


Interview

The Desert Pilgrim: An Interview with Mary Swander
Jacqueline Kolosov


Nonfiction

Sashimi
Tiffany Trent

Chugach State Park: Wilderness on the Edge of Town
Bill Sherwonit

Refugee Yearnings
Tim Hogan

Clams and Coyotes
Josh Cohn

What a Garden It Was
Dixon Bynum

Incident on Wheeler Road
Richard Hunt

Where Should I Live and What Should I Live For?
Kathleen Dean Moore


Poetry

Heat Sequence: In and Out of Dreams
Elizabeth Schultz

In Reserve
Desert Boots
Palms
Ground Glass
Bruce Berger

Each Green Thing
The Book of Flowers
The Night Marsh
Night Drive
The Shadow of the Mower
Penny Harter

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