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This first book-length ecocritical analysis of Whitman's poetry is noteworthy for two reasons: few scholars in the field of ecocriticism have concentrated on the work of a single author, and few have focused on poetry rather than nonfiction prose.... Summing up: Essential, All collections; all levels. - Choice This book reassesses and reinvigorates Whitman studies, ecocriticism, and American cultural studies. - Kenneth M. Price

Jimmie Killingsworth is a professor of English at Texas A&M University, author of The Growth of Leaves of Grass: The Organic Tradition in Whitman Studies and Whitman's Poetry of the Body: Sexuality, Politics, and the Text, and coauthor of Ecospeak: Rhetoric and Environmental Politics in America.