Sebald, whose inclusion of photographs and ephemera alongside his text made for an experience that was more than reading. The aesthetic qualities of the book recall the work of W.G. Wright’s fascination with beech trees has yielded a book that contains multitudes. Like Walden, Casting Deep Shade emerges from a combined commitment to ethics and ecology, and recognizes that love of nature cannot be separated from love of justice. Now readers can dwell in Casting Deep Shade, a book that is also an arboretum. Shallcross, the first of Wright’s collections to appear after her sudden death in 2016, mixed short lyric poems with a longer sequence dedicated to murder victims in New Orleans. Wright’s ear was as open as her heart, keen to set down calamities private and public, gathering the moments and manners of particular lives while also investigating larger patterns such as the US Civil Rights movement and the current carceral state. In book-length poetry projects such as One With Others and One Big Self, she patented a style that borrowed from the documentary techniques of Muriel Rukeyser and brimmed with luscious description as well as lustrous bits of vernacular.
This is the beginning of ceremony.” She asks what the effect would be if national parks “became places of conscience instead of places of consumption?” In recent decades there have been few poets more conscientious than C.
In her book The Hour of Land, Terry Tempest Williams writes, “If we can learn to listen to the land, we can learn to listen to each other. OL20151261W Page_number_confidence 85.21 Pages 286 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220211183744 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 386 Scandate 20220204213544 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781556595486 Tts_version 4.Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2019. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:42:48 Associated-names Moers, Denny, photographer Copper Canyon Press, publisher Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40362314 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier
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