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The language of trees : a rewilding of literature and landscape / Katie Holten.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Portland, Oregon : Tin House, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Edition: First US editionDescription: xiii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1953534686
  • 9781953534682
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN6071.T74 H65 2023
Contents:
Introduction / Ross Gay -- Tree alphabet / Katie Holten -- Tree typeface (a rewilding tool) / Katie Holten -- Seeds, soil, sapling. The Ojibwe new year / Winona LaDuke -- He who plants a tree plants a hope / Lucy Larcom -- Michael Hamburger / Tacita Dean -- I am the seed of the free / Sojourner Truth -- Palas por pistolas / Pedro Reyes -- Acorn bread reipe / Lucy O'Hagan -- Buds, bark, branches. Oak gall ink recipe / Rachael Hawkwind -- Branches, leaves, roots and trunks / Robert Macfarlane -- Tree theory, biography and branching / Brian J. Enquist -- Cultivating the courage to sin / Andrea Bowers -- The wrong trees / Zadie Smith -- Fractal vision / James Gleick -- Leaves & trunks. It's the season I often mistake / Ada Limón -- from Why Information Grows / César A. Hidalgo -- Tree university / Futurefarmers -- from Funes, the Memorious / Jorge Luis Borges -- Under a plane tree / Plato -- Fake plastic trees / Radiohead -- The trees breathe out, we breathe in / Luchita Hurtado -- The elm stand / Thomas Princen -- The exact opposite of distance / Irene kopelman -- The innosence of trees / Valerie Segrest -- Blad 2/leaf 2 / Åse Eg Jørgensen -- Flowers & fruits. from Sketch of the Analytical Engine / Ada Lovelace -- An droighneán donn / Susan McKeown -- The tree with the apple tattoo / Nicola Twilley -- Millenniums of intervention / Amy Harmon -- Cacao: the world tree and her planetary mission / Jonathon Miller Weisberger -- Tree of life / Roz Naylor -- Forests. Two trees make a forest / Jessica J. Lee -- The word from world is forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- from How Forests Think / Eudardo Kohn -- from Forests / Gaia Vince -- Bewilderness / E.J. McAdams -- from Islands on Dry Land / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Ghost forest / Maya Lin -- Forest / Forrest Gander and Katie Holten -- Being / Tanaya Winder -- Brutes: meditations on the myth of the voiceless / Amitav Ghosh -- Trophic cascade / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Notes for a Salmon Creek Farm revival / Fritz Haeg -- We are the ark / Mary Reynolds -- Among the trees / Carl Phillips -- Mother trees / Suzanne Simard -- Tree time. Tree clocks and climate change / Nicole Davi -- from Alphabet / Inger Christensen -- The horse chestnut / Charles Gaines -- Future library / Katie Paterson -- January 23, 2015 / Andrea Zittel -- A matter of time / Amy Franceschini -- All the time in the world / Rachel Sussman -- Tree people. Mujer Waorani/Waorani women / Nemo Andy Guiquita -- Tree x office / Natalie Jeremijenko -- This is not our world with trees in it / Richard Powers -- I want to be a tree / Sumana Roy -- What's happening? -- Declaration of interbeing / Kinari Webb Roots & resistance. Why are there no trees in Paleolithic cave drawings? / William Corwin and Colin Renfrew -- Speaking of nature / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- "Joy is such a human madness": the duff between us / Ross Gay -- Of trees in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars / Aengus Woods -- Legere and [bibliotheca]: the library as idea and space / Anna-Sphie Springer -- Lessons from fungi / Toby Kiers -- They carry us with them: the great tree migration / Chelsea Tewinauer-Scudder -- After trees. Afterword: another world is possible / Katie Holten.
Summary: "Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new original writing in praise of the natural world. With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Limón, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the magic of trees. She guides readers on a journey from "primeval atoms" and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages"--

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Ross Gay -- Tree alphabet / Katie Holten -- Tree typeface (a rewilding tool) / Katie Holten -- Seeds, soil, sapling. The Ojibwe new year / Winona LaDuke -- He who plants a tree plants a hope / Lucy Larcom -- Michael Hamburger / Tacita Dean -- I am the seed of the free / Sojourner Truth -- Palas por pistolas / Pedro Reyes -- Acorn bread reipe / Lucy O'Hagan -- Buds, bark, branches. Oak gall ink recipe / Rachael Hawkwind -- Branches, leaves, roots and trunks / Robert Macfarlane -- Tree theory, biography and branching / Brian J. Enquist -- Cultivating the courage to sin / Andrea Bowers -- The wrong trees / Zadie Smith -- Fractal vision / James Gleick -- Leaves & trunks. It's the season I often mistake / Ada Limón -- from Why Information Grows / César A. Hidalgo -- Tree university / Futurefarmers -- from Funes, the Memorious / Jorge Luis Borges -- Under a plane tree / Plato -- Fake plastic trees / Radiohead -- The trees breathe out, we breathe in / Luchita Hurtado -- The elm stand / Thomas Princen -- The exact opposite of distance / Irene kopelman -- The innosence of trees / Valerie Segrest -- Blad 2/leaf 2 / Åse Eg Jørgensen -- Flowers & fruits. from Sketch of the Analytical Engine / Ada Lovelace -- An droighneán donn / Susan McKeown -- The tree with the apple tattoo / Nicola Twilley -- Millenniums of intervention / Amy Harmon -- Cacao: the world tree and her planetary mission / Jonathon Miller Weisberger -- Tree of life / Roz Naylor -- Forests. Two trees make a forest / Jessica J. Lee -- The word from world is forest / Ursula K. Le Guin -- from How Forests Think / Eudardo Kohn -- from Forests / Gaia Vince -- Bewilderness / E.J. McAdams -- from Islands on Dry Land / Elizabeth Kolbert -- Ghost forest / Maya Lin -- Forest / Forrest Gander and Katie Holten -- Being / Tanaya Winder -- Brutes: meditations on the myth of the voiceless / Amitav Ghosh -- Trophic cascade / Aimee Nezhukumatathil -- Notes for a Salmon Creek Farm revival / Fritz Haeg -- We are the ark / Mary Reynolds -- Among the trees / Carl Phillips -- Mother trees / Suzanne Simard -- Tree time. Tree clocks and climate change / Nicole Davi -- from Alphabet / Inger Christensen -- The horse chestnut / Charles Gaines -- Future library / Katie Paterson -- January 23, 2015 / Andrea Zittel -- A matter of time / Amy Franceschini -- All the time in the world / Rachel Sussman -- Tree people. Mujer Waorani/Waorani women / Nemo Andy Guiquita -- Tree x office / Natalie Jeremijenko -- This is not our world with trees in it / Richard Powers -- I want to be a tree / Sumana Roy -- What's happening? -- Declaration of interbeing / Kinari Webb Roots & resistance. Why are there no trees in Paleolithic cave drawings? / William Corwin and Colin Renfrew -- Speaking of nature / Robin Wall Kimmerer -- "Joy is such a human madness": the duff between us / Ross Gay -- Of trees in paint; in teeth; in wood; in sheet-iron; in stone; in mountains; in stars / Aengus Woods -- Legere and [bibliotheca]: the library as idea and space / Anna-Sphie Springer -- Lessons from fungi / Toby Kiers -- They carry us with them: the great tree migration / Chelsea Tewinauer-Scudder -- After trees. Afterword: another world is possible / Katie Holten.

"Inspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, The Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape invites readers to discover an unexpected and imaginative language to better read and write the natural world around us and reclaim our relationship with it. In this gorgeously illustrated and deeply thoughtful collection, Katie Holten gifts readers her tree alphabet and uses it to masterfully translate and illuminate beloved lost and new original writing in praise of the natural world. With an introduction from Ross Gay, and featuring writings from over fifty contributors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Ada Limón, Robert Macfarlane, Zadie Smith, Radiohead, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, James Gleick, Elizabeth Kolbert, Plato, and Robin Wall Kimmerer, Holten illustrates each selection with an abiding love and reverence for the magic of trees. She guides readers on a journey from "primeval atoms" and cave paintings to the death of a 3,500 year-old cypress tree, from Tree Clocks in Mongolia and forest fragments in the Amazon to the language of fossil poetry, unearthing a new way to see the natural beauty all around us and an urgent reminder of what could happen if we allow it to slip away. The Language of Trees considers our relationship with literature and landscape, resulting in an astonishing fusion of storytelling and art and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages"--

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