American Earth : environmental writing since Thoreau

Review

This huge anthology can be read from beginning to end, but it is just as satisfying to pick and choose a poem, essay or speech as you wish or just flip through the sections of photographs. It includes pieces about individual encounters with the wild to political calls-to-arms to elegies for things lost and more from diverse American voices like John Muir, Annie Dillard, Barry Lopez, César Chávez, and Alice Walker to name only a few.