More-Than-Human Ethics of Care in the Poetry of Mary Oliver.

This essay examines how Mary Oliver's poetry enacts an ethic of care that encourages the reconsideration of boundaries between human-nonhuman worlds and the intrinsically valuable nature of human-nonhuman relationships. Her poems evoke environmental awareness disarticulated from information-deficit models of ecological behavior and remain attuned to modes of thinking-with, thinking-for, and dissenting-within human-nonhuman relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]