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Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

10 best books like Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World (Michael K. Stone): Sing, Unburied, Sing, Life on Mars, Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Incarnadine: Poems, Bestiary: Poems, How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction, Patient Zero, Late Empire, Reconnaissance

Sing, Unburied, Sing
AuthorJesmyn Ward
ISBN1501126067
Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. An intimate portrait of a family and an epic tale of hope and struggle, Sing, Unburied, Sing journeys...
Life on Mars
AuthorTracy K. Smith
ISBN1555975844
You lie there kicking like a baby, waiting for God himself
To lift you past the rungs of your crib. What
Would your life say if it could talk? 
                                                           —from...
Evolutions: Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World
AuthorOren Harman
ISBN0374150702
A brilliant lyrical exploration of how modern science illuminates what it means to be human, from the award-winning author of The Price of Altruism

We no longer think, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing-apart...
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
AuthorPatricia Lockwood
ISBN0143126520
A breathtaking new collection from one of today’s boldest and most adventurous poets

Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens...
Incarnadine: Poems
AuthorMary Szybist
ISBN1555976352
The troubadours
knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.
                        -from “The Troubadours etc.”
 
In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly...
Bestiary: Poems
AuthorDonika Kelly
ISBN1555977588
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too...
How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction
AuthorBeth Shapiro
ISBN0691157057
Could extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? The science says yes. In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, evolutionary biologist and pioneer in "ancient DNA" research, walks readers through the astonishing and controversial process of de-extinction. From...
Patient Zero
AuthorTomas Q. Morin
ISBN1556594933
“I will call the voice of this poet a ‘common’ voice… a voice a poet could take into an entire lifetime of memorable writing.” —Philip Levine, Ploughshares

This second collection from APR-Honickman winner Tomás Q. Morín explores love gone sideways in the lives of lovers, parents...
Late Empire
AuthorLisa Olstein
ISBN1556595182
Lisa Olstein was born and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, undertaking additional studies at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts and Harvard Divinity School. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize...
Reconnaissance
AuthorCarl Phillips
ISBN0374248281
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets

There's
a trembling inside the both of us,
there's a trembling, inside us both.

The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering...
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