Another place
Subtitle: an ecocritical study of selected western American poets
By: Andrew Elkins.
Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Forth Worth
Language: eng
Number of pages: 345
Subjects: American poetry -- West (U.S.) -- History and criticism; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- West (U.S.); Place (Philosophy) in literature; Wilderness areas in literature; Landscape in literature; Ecology in literature; Nature in literature; Setting (Literature); West (U.S.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; West (U.S.) -- In literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: Sand, wind, and buttes: Peggy Pond Church's lifetime love affair with the desert Southwest; title: Hootin' and hollerin' in the Rocky Mountain West: cowboy poetry, the land, and the modern reader; title: A terrible beauty: the Alaskan wilderness and the poetry of John Haines; title: Dispossessed: the poetic inferno of Adrian Louis; title: Surf, rivers, and salmon: the Northwest in the poetry of Richard Hugo; title: California as the world in the poetry of Jane Hirshfield.