This volume discusses three female American poets, Amy Clampitt (1920-1994), Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) and Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). The author shows how each grappled with the ways that European civilization was transformed in the New World, highlighting the interconnected themes of travel, geography, cartography and wildness.

Found in Alberta: Environmental Themes for the Anthropocene is a collection of essays about the natural environment in a province rich in natural resources and aggressive in development goals. This is a casebook on Alberta from which emerges a far wider set of implications for North America and for the biosphere in general. The writers come from an array of disciplinary backgrounds within the environmental humanities.

The essays examine the oil/tar sands, climate change, provincial government policy, food production, industry practices, legal frameworks, wilderness spaces,...