In the First Country of Places: Nature, Poetry, and Childhood Memory

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State University of New York Press, 1994 M09 8 - 234 páginas
In the First Country of Places explores how people's personal philosophies of nature shape their childhood memories and self-identities. Drawing upon written work and original interviews, the book describes uses of memory through the perspectives of five American Poets who represent different contemporary beliefs: William Bronk, David Ignatow, Audre Lorde, Marie Ponsot, and Henry Weinfield. These authors present their relationships with nature and childhood in the context of major Western traditions of philosophy and religion. Each poet confronts the modern scientific image of an alien nature within which histories of individuals are insignificant; and three poets elaborate alternative versions of connection with nature and their own past. This work opens new directions in the psychology of memory, developmental and environmental psychology, environmental studies, and the study of American poetry.
 

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Chapter Two Childhood and Nature 21
21
William Bronk
51
David Ignatow
85
Audre Lorde and Marie Ponsot
105
Chapter Six Childhood and Nature Reconsidered
145
Chapter Seven A Recollective Psychology
169
Epilogue
195
Notes
201
Index
229
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Louise Chawla is Associate Professor at Whitney Young College, an interdisciplinary honors college at Kentucky State University. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on environmental autobiography and children's environmental experience.

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