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Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems

Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems

McKay, Don
Holmes, Nancy

Paperback

Series: Environmental Humanities, Book 2

Fiction AnthologiesPoetry AnthologiesPoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 1554580331
ISBN13: 9781554580330
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
Published: Apr 6 2009
Pages: 534
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English

The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada's regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the natural world. The poetic responses included here range from the heights of the sublime to detailed naturalist observation, from the perspectives of pioneers and those who work in the woods and on the sea to the dismayed witnesses of ecological destruction, from a sense of terror in confrontation with the natural world to expressions of amazement and delight at the beauty and strangeness of nature, our home. Arranged chronologically, the poems include excerpts from late-eighteenth-century colonial pioneer epics and selections from both well-known and more obscure nineteenth- and twentieth-century writers. A substantial section is devoted to contemporary writers who are working within and creating a new ecopoetic aesthetic in the early twenty-first century.

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