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  • Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form

    Holding on to Proteus

    de Aaron Moe ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in World Literatures and the Environment
    Ecocriticism and the Poiesis of Form: Holding on to Proteus demonstrates how a fractal imagination helps one hold the form of a poem within the reaches of Deep Time, and it explores the kinship between the hazy, liminal moment when Sound becomes Syllable and the hazy, liminal moment when the sage energy of the Atom made a leap toward the gaze of the first cell, to echo Merwin. Moe distills his ... Leer más

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  • Animals in Classic American Poetry

    How Natural History Inspired Great Verse

    Series series Integrative Natural History Series, sponsored by the Museum of Natural History Collections, Sam Houston State University
    In this companion volume to Animals in the American Classics: How Natural History Inspired Great Fiction, John Cullen Gruesser brings together leading experts who explore the integral role animals play in American poetry. The ten essays in Animals in Classic American Poetry: How Natural History Inspired Great Verse showcase how the natural history of and imagery relating to animals have inspired ... Leer más

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  • A Pack of Therapy Dogs

    Helping People One Wag at a Time

    "Therapy dogs are specially trained animals whose job is to help people feel better in a variety of settings. This book shares the stories of Sunny, Oreo, and Poppy, a pack of therapy dogs in Michigan. They specialize in helping kids who have gone through tough times as part of the Therapy Dog Clinic at Western Michigan University. They also support folks in schools, hospitals, nursing homes, and ... Leer más

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  • Zoopoetics

    Animals and the Making of Poetry

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    Zoopoetics assumes Aristotle was right. The general origin of poetry resides, in part, in the instinct to imitate. But it is an innovative imitation. An exploration of the oeuvres of Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, W. S. Merwin, and Brenda Hillman reveals the many places where an imitation of another species’ poiesis (Greek, makings) contributes to breakthroughs in poetic form. However, humans are ... Leer más

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  • The Kingdom of Speech

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    The legendary reporter and author of The Right Stuff takes on Darwin, Chomsky, and the origin of language in "his boldest bit of dueling yet" ( The New York Times).Tom Wolfe, the great journalist-provocateur, aims his piercing wit at the presiding theories of what makes us human. The Kingdom of Speech is a captivating, paradigm-shifting argument that speech—not evolution—is responsible for ... Leer más

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  • Second Words

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  • The Best of the Best American Poetry

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