Table of Contents:
  • An Ecocritical Ethics of Reading
  • On Knowing (and Not Knowing) Animals
  • Poetic Animals
  • Mesoamerican Spirituality and Animal Co-Essences
  • Jose Emilio Pacheco: "I saw a dying fish"
  • Marianne Moore: "flies in amber"
  • Smith, Larkin, Snyder, Heaney, Rogers: "we should be kind".