Wind, Trees
Published on 25. October 2022
96 pages
978-1-61932-266-0 (ISBN)
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A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studiesthe devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love. In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation onpower and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us aboutinhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control thewind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critiqueof pandemic self-preservation--as "justifications grew / with greed like vines /up the side of a tree / taking everything"--Wind, Trees joins the ranksof politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S.Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought andpunctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and theredemptive possibilities of love.
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Wind, Trees
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12/2022
Copper Canyon Press,U.S.
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John Freeman is the author of Dictionary of the Undoing several other books, including The Park (Copper Canyon, 2020), and There's a Revolution Outside My Life (2021), co-edited with Tracy K Smith. The founder of the literary annual Freeman's, he is an executive editor at Alfred A. Knopf. His latest books are The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story (Penguin, 2021), and The Wind, Trees (Copper Canyon, 2022), a collection of poems. His work has been translated into over twenty languages.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Note to Reader
- Dedication
- Contents
- Sleeping in the Cross Breeze
- Wind
- Decoys
- Boxing
- Loneliness
- Perfume
- Dawn in Erie, Pennsylvania
- Wind
- Helping
- Friendship
- Perigee
- Passing
- Take It
- Nothing to Declare
- Ending
- Rain
- The Commute
- Piano
- Signs
- Saturday
- Night Train
- The Heat Is Coming
- Windward
- Yard Dogs
- Dream
- Burning the Days
- Sailing
- Quarantine
- Airless
- Trees
- Shipbuilding
- Singing
- The Language of Trees
- Wood
- Among the Trees
- Still
- Show
- The Secret Country
- Borrowed Finery
- Icicle
- Centuries in the Woods
- Exile
- The Trees of City Hall
- Windbreak
- Dusk
- Colors
- Receiving
- Without
- The Green Tram
- Fables
- The Red Umbrella
- Voices
- About the Author
- Books by John Freeman
- Acknowledgments
- Copyright
- Special Thanks
