Before Wright's unexpected death in 2016, she was deeply engaged in years of ambling research to better know this tree-she visited hundreds of beech trees, interviewed arborists, and delved into the etymology, folk lore, and American. MacArthur fellow Wright (19492016) honed her vernacular and her. Casting Deep Shade is a passionate, poetic exploration of humanity's shared history with the beech tree. Wright’s prose-poetry style has always resisted categorization, and simply blown apart convention An Amble will surely serve as a conservation not just of nature but of Wright’s indelible voice, which is sorely missed. Copper Canyon, 32 (160p) ISBN 978-1-55659-548-6. This new work promises to be all about the beech tree, which Wright studied for years before her sudden death in 2016. Wright has been writing some of the greatest poetry-cum-prose you can find in American literature.' -Dave Eggers. Wright because it so aptly skewers the mutability of language as it is used over and over by humans to try to make sense of the stubbornly material physical world, of which, I think, Wright would have approved. Wright belongs to a school of exactly one.' -The New York Times 'C.D. She gathers it together in small fragments, seldom more than a fraction of a. I love the double resonance of the title of this posthumous collection from the beloved C.D. At first glance, Casting Deep Shade is a commonplace book of all this information. This excerpt from Casting Deep Shade by C.D. Used Very Good (1 available) Former library book used book that is in excellent condition.“Composed of snippets of prose on ecological histories, historical narratives, folklore, etymologies, personal asides, travel memoir, cultural commentary, and moving family autobiography, the book begins as a loving naturalist’s ode to the beech tree and branches out to touch a dizzying array of international, transhistorical topics, not least among them what it means to be alive.” Wright (19492016) published sixteen collections of poetry and prose and.

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