In response to the growing scale and complexity of environmental threats, this volume collects articles, essays, personal narratives, and poems by more than forty authors in conversation about “thinking continental”—connecting local and personal landscapes to universal systems and processes—to articulate the concept of a global or planetary citizenship.

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 Ríos 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 Tóibín Encounter     Tess Gallagher Matters of Geneva     Dawn Dupler The Course of the Peculiar     Michael Heffernan Tsé Bit’a’í     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