Wind, Trees
A politically urgent yet timeless collection that studies
the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on
power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about
inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the
wind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critique
of pandemic self-preservation--as "justifications grew / with greed like vines /
up the side of a tree / taking everything"--Wind, Trees joins the ranks
of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S.
Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and
punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the
redemptive possibilities of love.
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9781556596483
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 23
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2022
Library Journal 01/13/2023 pg. 1
About the Author
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.
the devastating failings of humanity and the redemptive possibilities of love.In Wind, Trees, John Freeman presents a meditation on
power and loss, change and adaptation. What can the trees teach us about
inhabiting space together? What might we gain if we admit we do not control the
wind, and cannot possibly carry all we've been handed? Offering a stark moral critique
of pandemic self-preservation--as "justifications grew / with greed like vines /
up the side of a tree / taking everything"--Wind, Trees joins the ranks
of politically urgent yet timeless collections like The Lice by W.S.
Merwin. Through narrative lyric and metaphysical pulse, meandering thought and
punctuating quiet, Freeman studies the devastating failings of humanity and the
redemptive possibilities of love.
Author: John Freeman
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 10/25/2022
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.10d
ISBN: 9781556596483
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2022 pg. 23
Publishers Weekly 10/17/2022
Library Journal 01/13/2023 pg. 1
About the Author
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.
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