Our bodies and the earth are intimately connected. But because so many of us live more online than on the land, it’s easy to forget this connection. 

Earth and Eros brings together prose and poetry by nearly seventy writers—including Terry Tempest Williams, Gary Snyder, Pablo Neruda, Diane Ackerman, Sherman Alexie, Zora Neale Hurston, D. H. Lawrence, Louise Erdrich, Li-Young Lee, Jane Hirshfield—with thirty full-color fine art landscape photographs to celebrate the sacred erotic dimension of humans’ relationship to the earth. The book expresses the conviction that eros—the life force that drives roses to bloom and salmon to swim upriver to spawn—is the only force strong enough to move us to imagine and create the new world that is crying to be born out of our current environmental predicament.

Lorraine Anderson, a founding member of ASLE, is a freelance writer and editor with a longstanding interest in creating a culture grounded in a reciprocal relationship with nature. Her previous books include Sisters of the Earth: Women’s Prose and Poetry About Nature and Literature and the Environment: A Reader on Nature and Culture (with Scott Slovic and John P. O’Grady). With a master’s degree in creation spirituality, she has been a community college writing instructor and is certified as a yoga teacher.