Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Reinhabiting -- Big Picture, Local Place: A Conversation with David Robertson and Robert L. Thayer Jr. -- Still under the Influence: The Bioregional Origins of the Hub City Writers Project -- Representing Chicago Wilderness -- "To Become Beavers of Sorts": Eric Collier's Memoir of Creative Ecology at Meldrum Creek -- The Poetics of Water: Currents of Reclamation in the Columbia River Basin -- Restoring the Imagination of Place: Narrative Reinhabitation and the Po Valley -- "This Is What Matters": Reinhabitory Discourse and the "Poetics of Responsibility" in the Work -- PART TWO: Rereading -- Mapping Placelore: Tim Robinson's Ambulation and Articulation of Connemara as Bioregion -- The Challenge of Writing Bioregionally: Performing the Bow River in Jon Whyte's Minisniwapta: Voices of the River -- Figures of Life: Beverley Farmer's The Seal Woman as an Australian Bioregional Novel -- Melancholy Botany: Charlotte Smith's Bioregional Poetic Imaginary -- The Nature of Region: Russell Banks, New England, and New York -- Critical Utopianism and Bioregional Ecocriticism -- Critical Bioregionalist Method in Dune: A Position Paper -- PART THREE: Reimagining -- "Los campos extraños de esta ciudad" / "The strange fields of this city": Urban Bioregionalist Identity and Environmental Justice in Lorna Dee Cervantes's "Freeway 280" -- Bioregionalism, Postcolonial Literatures, and Ben Okri's The Famished Road -- Seasons and Nomads: Reflections on Bioregionalism in Australia -- Reading Climate Change and Work in the Circumpolar North -- Douglas Livingstone's Poetry and the (Im)possibility of the Bioregion -- "Fully motile and AWAITING FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS": Thinking the Feral into Bioregionalism -- PART FOUR: Renewal -- Out of the Field Guide: Teaching Habitat Studies.

Switching on Light Bulbs and Blowing Up Mountains: Ecoliteracy and Energy Consumption in General Education English Courses -- Teaching Bioregional Perception-at a Distance -- Where You at 20.0 -- A Bioregional Booklist -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.