"This amazingly capacious and intelligent collection of poems and essays is the first extended work I know to take completely seriously where poetry comes from ... Eco-concerns make us hear multiple musics in endless varied assemblages that allow us to become attuned to the many kinds of intelligences that sponsor them."
—Charles Altieri, Stageberg Professor of English, UC Berkeley

"This significant collection of the latest ecopoetic thinking and practice brings together a diverse representation of twenty-first-century poetry and commentary to speak truth to both the peril and hope of the present moment. The voices in this anthology—whether urgent cry or sibilant whisper—need to be heard ..."
—Scott Edward Anderson, author of Dwelling: an ecopoem

"This phenomenal gathering of writers makes a collective pledge that will serve a generation of readers. This anthology pauses the insufficient verbiage of environmental policy and regulation by borrowing language’s ability to imaginatively represent and alter how we speak about and frame current ecological challenges. These poems and essays widen the berth by which we understand, absorb, and begin to face with courage and hope the consequences of several centuries of inattentive human behaviors that have proven harmful to the planet. By displaying a complex of approaches and styles, the anthology points us to a greater regard for life with as much diversity and as manymanifestations as what is found on land, in oceans, and in the air."
—Major Jackson, Richard A. Dennis Professor of English, University of Vermont