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Unchopping a Tree: An Intimate, Beautifully Illustrated Gift Edition of Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin's Wondrous Story about How to Resurrect a Fallen Tr

Unchopping a Tree: An Intimate, Beautifully Illustrated Gift Edition of Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin's Wondrous Story about How to Resurrect a Fallen Tr

Merwin, W. S.
Ward, Liz

Paperback

BuddhismEnvironmental StudiesLawns, Trees, & Shrubs

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1595343075
ISBN13: 9781595343079
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: Mar 5 2024
Pages: 48
Weight: 0.18
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 7.00
Language: English
There's no mystery to chopping down a tree. But how do you put back together a tree that's been felled? Mystical instructions are required, and that's what W. S. Merwin provides in his prose piece Unchopping a Tree, appearing for the first time in a self-contained volume. Written with a poet's grace, an ecologist's insights, and a Buddhist's reverence for life, this elegant work describes the difficult, sacred job of reconstructing a tree. Step by step, page by page, with Merwin's humble authority, secrets are revealed, and the destroyed tree rises from the forest floor. Unchopping a Tree opens with simplicity and grace: Start with the leaves, the small twigs, and the nest that have been shaken, ripped, or broken off by the fall; these must be gathered and attached once again to their respective places. W. S. Merwin, like many conservationists, is quick to say: When we destroy the so-called natural world around us we're simply destroying ourselves. And I think it's irreversible. Thus the tree takes on a scale that begs the reader's compassion, and one tree is a parable for the restoration of all nature.

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