TY - JOUR
AU - Baker, Anne
AB - 268 ISLE machine had, after all, eaten much of the world's cultures and resources. Galvin recognizes this legacy by including on the poem's horizon the British army, on maneuvers—and pursues it no further. Ecologically, that's the problem. Galvin's method is to nominate the objects of his gastric and scopophilic desires—landscapes or commodi- ties—and to narrate their happy consumption, not the consequences of buying, chewing, and swallowing. Daniel Gustav Anderson University of Nevada, Reno Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics. By Jimmie Killingsworth. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 2004. 224 pp. Cloth $39.95. In Walt Whitman and the Earth, Jimmie Killingsworth makes a persua- sive and thorough case for including Whitman in the expanding canon of environmental writers. Whitman's poetry, he claims, "embodies the kinds of conflicted experience and language that continually crop up in the discourse of political ecology" (10). In making this argument about Whitman's poems and their relationship to "political ecology," Killingsworth draws on his own work in two fields that have usually been thought of as distinct. Trained in English departments where he developed a strong interest in Romantic poetry, which eventually led to an academic career as a Whitman scholar, he 
TI - Walt Whitman and the Earth: A Study in Ecopoetics
JF - ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment
DO - 10.1093/isle/12.2.268
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/walt-whitman-and-the-earth-a-study-in-ecopoetics-WrtAN4bKmb
SP - 268
EP - 269
VL - 12
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -