HUMAN WILDERNESS
By Amanda Passmore-Ott. Finishing Line Press, 2024.
Human Wilderness contains poems that explore the tension between human nature and the natural world through deep observation and reflection. The title of the collection suggests the exploration of nature leads to an even deeper exploration of what it means to be human as the poems take the reader on a lyric journey of loss, longing, becoming, understanding, and acceptance. Ultimately, Human Wilderness is a potential for metamorphosis.
Amanda Passmore-Ott teaches writing at The Pennsylvania State University and ...
BORNE BY THE RIVER: CANOEING THE DELAWARE FROM HEADWATERS TO HOME
By Rick Van Noy. Cornell/Three Hills, 2024.
After a near-fatal stroke and a separation, amidst a global pandemic, Rick Van Noy decided to go for a paddle. In Borne by the River, he charts the story of discovery, and healing that came from this solo canoe journey. Paddling two hundred miles on the Delaware River to his boyhood home just upriver from Trenton, New Jersey, Van Noy contemplates his fate and life, as well as the simple joy of sitting in a small boat floating down ...
PMLA
PMLA invites submissions for the special topic Environmental Humanities in Practice.
What is the affordance of literature for the environmental humanities as practiced in various cultural contexts? What constellations of practices in the environmental humanities emerge from its incubation as a scholarly, theoretical, and critical paradigm, specifically through the politics of literary representation and literature’s salience for both pedagogical and activist projects? What literary modes, including experimental ones such as speculative climate fiction, have provided key points of intervention for the practice of the ...