Shifting Ground

The look of the American landscape has changed since the 19th century; so has our idea of landscape. Costello reads six 20th-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape with new images from the natural world and new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it. Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.