In this Book
- Thinking Continental: Writing the Planet One Place at a Time
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: University of Nebraska Press
In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects 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.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction: An Alignment of Stones
- pp. xi-xviii
- Part 1. Ground Truths
- A World of Islands
- pp. 3-15
- The Deepest Layer
- pp. 33-45
- Poetry 1. Ground Truths
- Meadows and Fireflies
- p. 113
- Strata Songs: Galway and Arizona
- pp. 118-119
- Sutra, in Umber
- pp. 120-121
- After Taiwan
- p. 122
- Birth of a Nation
- pp. 123-125
- Matters of Geneva
- pp. 127-128
- The Course of the Peculiar
- pp. 129-130
- Tsé Bit’a’í
- pp. 131-132
- Konza Prairie
- p. 133
- Part 2. Watershed Ways
- Pathways of the Yellowstone
- pp. 179-193
- What You Take from the Sea
- pp. 208-218
- Poetry 2. Watershed Ways
- The Mighty Mississippi
- p. 240
- Mississippi Delta Lay Down
- pp. 241-242
- By the Sea
- pp. 245-246
- River Dolphins
- pp. 248-249
- Sruth Fada Con
- p. 250
- Wanting Choughs
- pp. 251-252
- Part 3. Planetary Currents
- Poetry 3. Planetary Currents
- Asking Why
- p. 311
- The Dark Sky Reserve
- p. 312
- Ornithological Perspectives
- pp. 313-314
- Spiritus Mundi
- p. 315
- Killer Butterfly
- pp. 318-319
- When the Body
- pp. 320-321
- What I Keep
- pp. 322-323
- War Memorial
- p. 324
- As the Diamond
- pp. 328-329
- The Burden of Theology
- p. 330
- A Line from Dogen
- pp. 331-332
- Contributors
- pp. 333-345