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Elegy for the Trees

Elegy for the Trees

Hill, Cindy Ellen

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1639801561
ISBN13: 9781639801565
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Jul 9 2022
Pages: 50
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
... No harm indeed, I said. You've played fate's hand. Your trees are all that stay of that fine stand... (From Mountain Ash II)



Cindy Ellen Hill's first poem in Elegy for the Trees vows to sing for trees. Her tightly-crafted poems do exactly that. We witness specific species of trees mostly native to eastern North America through the ravages of deforestation, wildland fires, ramped-up development, climate change, blight and trees driven to extinction by non-native predators. Her poetry songs often follow a fourteen-line tradition that includes the phrasing of Celtic and Skaldic meters and Greek elegiac couplets. She invokes an ancient alphabet to help us understand what trees illustrate of ecological awareness and mycorrhizal communication. She reminds us of what we need to think about now more than ever, how we can honor the memories of trees. Finally, her imperative: go plant a tree.

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