Thinking Continental

Introduction: An Alignment of Stones Part 1. Ground Truths A World of Islands Elizabeth Dodd Three Stations along the Ring of Fire O. Alan Weltzien The Deepest Layer Harmon Maher Deep Mapping Communities in the West of Ireland Nessa Cronin Where Narratives Met: Microplace and Macrospace in Early Fascist Primary School Textbooks and the Case of Eugenio Cirese's Gente buona (1925) Fabiana Dimpflmeier Imagining the Memory of the Earth: Geo-Site and the Aesthetic of the Anthropocene Andrea Benassi Cacophonous Silence (The Sound of Falling Wildly): A Transnational Experiment in Ecological Performance Poiesis Jess Allen and Bronwyn Preece Poetry 1: Ground Truths Meadows and Fireflies Aliki Barnstone Sonora Desert: Winter Afternoon Singing Itself Alberto Rios Too Easy Greg Delanty Communion Twyla Hansen Strata Songs: Galway and Arizona Susan Millar DuMars Sutra, in Umber Kimberly Blaeser After Taiwan Kimberly Blaeser Birth of a Nation Colm Toibin Encounter Tess Gallagher Matters of Geneva Dawn Dupler The Course of the Peculiar Michael Heffernan Tse Bit'a'i Christine Casson Konza Prairie O. Alan Weltzien Glaciers, Mountains, Falls David Brannan Part 2. Watershed Ways Braided Channels of Watershed Consciousness: Loren Eiseley's "The Flow of the River" and the Platte Basin Timelapse Project Tom Lynch Plovers, Great Blues, Horned Owl: A Poet's Ecotone Brendan Galvin Superior: Reimagining the Interior of a Continent Susan Naramore Maher Pathways of the Yellowstone Bernard Quetchenbach The Proximity of Far Away: Climate Change Comes to the Alligator Rick Van Noy What You Take from the Sea Mary Swander Recontinentalizing Europe: Terrestrial Conversion and Symbolic Exchanges at Europe's Mediterranean Frontier Emilio Cocco Poetry 2: Watershed Ways With a Hurricane, She Climbs Mountains while She Dreams Pam Uschuk The Mighty Mississippi Twyla Hansen Mississippi Delta Lay Down Ann Fisher-Wirth Links Brendan Galvin By the Sea David Lloyd Aubade William Logan River Dolphins Michael S. Begnal Sruth Fada Con Barry Johnston Wanting Choughs Tony Curtis Double View of the Adirondacks as Reflected over Lake Champlain from Waterfront Park Major Jackson Portage Alice Azure Part 3. Planetary Currents The Lariat and the GPS: Cowboys, Cattle Ranching, and Global Agricultural Practices Nancy S. Cook Life on the Western Edge of It All: Conceptions of Place in Tess Gallagher's Lough Arrow Poems Drucilla Wall Return to Finland, Robert Creeley, Continental Drift Eamonn Wall Excerpts from COSMOGRAPHY: Re-Minding Our Place in the Universe Joel Weishaus Poetry 3: Planetary Currents Asking Why Marge Saiser The Dark Sky Reserve Heid E. Erdrich Ornithological Perspectives Walter Bargen Spiritus Mundi Greg Delanty Strange Aliki Barnstone Killer Butterfly Walter Bargen When the Body Linda Hogan What I Keep Linda Hogan War Memorial Katherine Soniat Bulk Daniel Tobin All Hallows' Eve, County Mayo Joan McBreen As the Diamond Tess Gallagher The Burden of Theology Kelly Cherry A Line from Dogen Walter Bargen Contributors