Subtitled A Rewilding Of Literature and Landscape, Katie Holten’s beautiful book The Language of Trees gathers together a rich tapestry of essays, poems, stories, myths, fables and more about trees.
There are pieces about tree clocks, about the oldest trees in the world, an exploration of fossil poems, philosophical musings on how trees root us to the world, and a whole lot more. Small poems are also all over the place in this book. Ross Gay opens the book with a wonderful preface, too.
Not every piece she chose here connected with me but the ones that did were magical. And what makes the book even more fascinating is that Holten has created her own tree typeface, which she uses throughout the collection, transforming poems and passages into pages of tree font.
With Write Out 2023 approaching, this book was a deep dive into the importance of trees and forests and the world.
Peace (and Roots),
Kevin
Two items:
1. Did you get to seem my latest edition to the Marc Hamer playlist? It included the tree fonts.
2. Did you get my package?
Yep
Yep
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