Channeling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry
By Serena Ferrando. University of Toronto Press, 2026.
Channeling Nature: Plants, Animals, and Water in Italian Poetry offers a new understanding of 20th-century Italian literature by showing how poetry serves as a vital medium for ecological thought. Ferrando examines the work of poets such as Andrea Zanzotto, Daria Menicanti, and Milo De Angelis, to reveal how verse gives voice to the more-than-human world—plants, animals, waterscapes—while modeling forms of multispecies cohabitation, resistance, and care. Moving beyond traditional symbolic readings, this book emphasizes how poetic language ...