By Elaine T. James

during this masterful new learn of the traditional poetry of the music of Songs, Elaine T. James explores the Song's underlying curiosity within the flora and fauna. attractive with the fields of geography, panorama structure, and literature, James reviews the tendency of students to reify a perceived dichotomy among "nature" and "culture" and in its place argues that the poetic recognition to panorama shows an know-how of a viewer. Nature is right here a poetic machine that informs James's close-readings of agrarianism, gardens, towns, social keep an eye on, and feminism and the gaze within the music. With this two-fold emphasis on panorama and lyric, Landscape of the music of Songs exhibits how the tune over and over envisions a global during which human fans are embedded within the flora and fauna, complexly enfolded in relationships of fragility and care.

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