Limber

Name: Limber
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ISBN: 9781936747757

ISBN-10: 1936747758

ISBN-13: 9781936747757

Edition: 2014

Authors: Angela Pelster

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Angela Pelster's startling essay collection about trees charts the world's history through roots in the ground, rings across wood, mountains, figs, and the evolution of our bodies. These sharp and tender essays move from her childhood in rural Canada surrounded by skinny poplar trees to a desert in Niger, where "The Loneliest Tree in the World" once grew. In her backyard, a squirrel's decomposing body below a towering maple prompts a discussion of the science of rot, as well as a metaphor for the ways in which nature programs us to consume ourselves. Pelster is a writer who looks and listens closely: She watches tree frogs and questions how long we can love one another; she listens to the…

Book details

List price: $27.50
Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/25/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 152
Size: 5.25" wide x 7.75" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English