華裔美國作家林玉玲的詩作的一大部分建立在地域之上，以及自我跟地域的緊張關係，並敘以土地與生物社群來呈現這樣的關連。本文旨在探討林玉玲詩作所蘊含的生態意識，詩人對於作為物質現實之非人類世界的處理也將從這個方向聚焦、給予肴視。林玉玲的作品混雜了生態、認同、地域、性別，顯露出一種尚未被完整探討、也未被評論家所賞識的環境主義。

A significant range of Shirley Geok-lin Lim's poetry dwells on place and the fraught relationship between self and place: a relationship often expressed in terms of the land and the biotic community. This essay will focus on the ecological consciousness which underlies Lim's poetry and the poet's treatment of the nonhuman world as material reality which must be recognized as such and ultimately cared for. In her work, Lim interweaves identity, place and gender with ecology and reveals an environmentalism which has yet to be fully explored and appreciated by critics.