ENG 240 Nature Literature
Metá-kuye-ásin. All our relations. In this course we read essays and poems by writers who find home in the wilderness, desert, mountains, farms, prairies—and family in the plants and animals with which they live. Our readings ask us to consider who we are and how we should live—but their focus is on what it means to be part of this natural world. We read within and without the canon—delving into writers such as Thoreau, Evelyn White, Muir, Dillard, Silko, Erdrich, Berry, Abbey, Lopez, Leopold, Ackerman, and Kimmerer.