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August 10, 2018

Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields

McIntyre Amy

By Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Steven Rubin. Penn State University Press. August, 2018

“Rarely have I read a work that so strongly, profoundly, and empathically characterizes the history of a region through those who have labored hardest to make a decent life in a beautiful yet ravaged land.” —Alison Hawthorne Deming, author of Stairway to Heaven

In Shale Play, acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the small towns, farms, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania to gather the stories ...

The Ecophobia Hypothesis

McIntyre Amy

By Simon C. Estok. Routledge. June, 2018. 

Winner of the “Writing in the Humanities Book Award” from the National Research Foundation, Korea.

The Ecophobia Hypothesis grows out of the sense that while the theory of biophilia has productively addressed ideal human affinities with nature, the capacity of “the biophilia hypothesis” as an explanatory model of human/ environment relations is limited. The biophilia hypothesis cannot adequately account for the kinds of things that are going on in the world, things so extraordinary that we are increasingly ...