Leaning toward Light (eBook, ePUB)

Poems for Gardens & the Hands That Tend Them
Redaktion: Taylor, Tess

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal-an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world.

Caring for plants (much like reading a good poem) brings comfort, solace, and joy to many-offering an outlet in difficult times to slow down and steward growth. In Leaning toward Light, acclaimed poet and avid gardener Tess Taylor brings together a diverse range of contemporary voices to offer poems that celebrate that joyful connection to the natural world. Several of the most well-known contemporary writers, as well as some of poetry's exciting rising stars, contribute to this collection including Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, Ada Limón, Danusha Laméris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Garret Hongo, Ellen Bass, and James Crews. Select poems are paired with reflective pauses and personal recipes from the authors, and colorful illustrations are featured throughout. Plus, the gorgeous hardcover package with ribbon bookmark makes this anthology a distinctive gift. Gardening offers a rich and expansive subject, with poems moving thematically through the year from planting and weeding to harvesting and eating. Poets find purpose in browsing a seed catalog and comfort in picking green tomatoes despite California's wildfire season raging on-reminding us how gardening is a healing practice, both for ourselves and the spaces we tend. The range of experience reflected, from caring for a few houseplants to an expansive garden or farm, offers wide appeal and illuminating insights for gardeners, plant lovers, or anyone interested in connecting more deeply with the earth. This publication conforms to the EPUB Accessibility specification at WCAG 2.0 Level AA.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Storey Publishing, LLC
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781635865813
• Artikelnr.: 65479051

Autorenporträt

Tess Taylor, an avid gardener, is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry including Work & Days, which was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and the New York Times. Taylor has been Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen’s University in Northern Ireland, and the Anne Spencer Poet-in-Residence at Randolph College. She has also served as on-air poetry reviewer for NPR’s All Things Considered for over a decade. Taylor lives in El Cerrito, California, where she tends to fruit trees and backyard chickens. 

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword: The Whole World, a Garden, Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Gardening in Public, Tess Taylor
A Small Needful Fact, Ross Gay
Planting & Sprouting
Becoming New & New Becoming, Ashley M. Jones
From Prayers and Sayings of the Mad Farmer, Wendell Berry
Photosynthesis, Ashley M. Jones
Greenbriar Lane, Diana Marie Delgado
Gardening, Cole Swensen
Three Sunflower Seeds, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
Spring (a conversation), Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Planting Inkberry Hollies During the Pandemic, Lauren Moseley
Trapeze, Elise Paschen
What Regenerates in a Household, Laura Villareal
Earth, Cleopatra Mathis
Autumn Blooming Cherry, Andy Eaton
Foreday in the Morning, Jericho Brown
Weeding & Wilding
In Praise of Strong Seedlings, Jane Hirshfield
Weed, Lia Purpura
Stained Glass, Jack Johnson
Deep Lane, Mark Doty
from Tending, Jenny Xie
Golden Poppy, Dana Levin
Considering the Snail, Thom Gunn
Feeding the Worms, Danusha Lameris
Spring Planting, Victoria Chang
The Contract, Jane Hirshfield
Now the Artichokes, Tess Taylor
Thistle, Maw Shein Win
Fennel, Thom Gunn
Dear Damselfly, Brynn Saito
Growing & Tending
Tendrils of Life & Community, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Trying, Ada Limon
from Separation Anxiety, Janice Lee
Haecceitas, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Palm Sunday, Mariana Goycoechea
Photosynthesis: (Chinaka Hodge Hosts a Block Party), Alan Chazaro
Mara Mara, Garden Child, Claudia Monpere
Song of the Gourd, C.D. Wright
Gift, Czeslaw Milosz
Poem Beginning with a Line from Wordsworth, Brian Simoneau
In the Dark, Cynthia Roth
Closing In, Jason Myers
Touch Me, Stanley Kunitz
Being & Waiting
Reaching Past the Human, Brenda Hillman
Levitation, Robert Haas
Love Poem with Horticulture and Anxiety, Stephanie Burt
Loveliest of Trees, A.E. Housman
Mississippi Invocation, Ann Fisher-Wirth
Quickening, Jacqueline Kolosov
All else is pale echo, dear, Chiyuma Elliott
from Just Tell Them No, Forrest Gander
To the Grackle, Kirun Kapur
Oasis, Arthur Sze
Pocket Garden in the City, David Baker
The Practice of Talking to Plants, Brenda Hillman
Insects with Long Childhoods, Hannah Fries
Gardeners' World, or What I Did During the Plague, Cynthia White
Grieving & Release
Grief & Sustenance, Danusha Lameris
Working in the Garden, I Think of My Son, Danusha Lameris
After Her Funeral, I Became an Environmentalist, Ilya Kaminsky
After All, Anna V. Q. Ross
Invasive, Ada Limon
Metaphor of America as This Homegrown Painted Lady Chrysalis, Camille T.
Dungy
Palestine Vine, Naomi Shihab Nye
The Tulips of Tehran, Sholeh Wolpe
Unending, Susan Nguyen
Aloe, Mary Jo Salter
My Mother Is a Garden, Ruben Quesada
from Song of Myself, Walt Whitman
Laurelhurst, David Biespiel
Harvest & Feeding
Of Food & Physical Hours, Ellen Bass
Apricot, Deborah Slicer
Speed and Perfection, Jane Hirshfield
Black Cherries, W. S. Merwin
More, James Crews
Abundant Blessings, James Crews
Ode to the First Peach, Ellen Bass
Fruit, Katie Peterson
After the Farmers Market, I Make a Salade Nicoise, Keetje Kuipers
Sous-Chef, Ellen Bass
Interview with the Pear Tree, Genine Lentine
August, Federico Garcia Lorca
To Autumn, John Keats
Green Tomatoes in Fire Season, Tess Taylor
cutting greens, Lucille Clifton
Who Among You Knows the Essence of Garlic? Garrett Hongo
Tasting Home, Garrett Hongo
Garlic, Matt Rader
Carrot, Leah Naomi Green
Turnip Ode, Tess Taylor
Wintering & Turning Again
Holding the Season in Our Hands, January Gill O'Neil
Mind Is Snow, Patty Crane
Season Due, Rosanna Warren
In the Community Garden, Mark Doty
Daffodils, Michelle Gillett
Sunday, Patty Crane
November, Remembering Voltaire, Jane Hirshfield
On the Twelfth of March, Cleopatra Mathis
Wild Oregano, January Gill O'Neil
The Garden, Sophie Cabot Black
Moon Garden, Derek Sheffield
To Every Thing There Is a Season, Ecclesiastes 3.1-8
Ghost Eden, Erika Meitner
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