WhenUrsulaK.Heise'snowcanonictextSenseofPlaceandSenseofPlanet:TheEnvironmentalImaginationoftheGlobalwasfirstpublishedin2008,IwasadoctoralstudentatSUNYStonyBrookwritingseminarpapersonVictorianperspectivesofnature.InthatsecondwaveofAnglophoneecocriticism,thoseofusworkinginthenewlyincubatedenvironmentalhumanitieswerethrilledtoengagewiththewide-rangingscopeofHeise'sbook,whoseaimsincludedthetheorizationandrevisioningofculturalandpoliticalattachmentstoplanetarynotionsofplace.