{"product_id":"the-language-of-trees-isbn-9781953534682","title":"The Language of Trees","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . a call to action for those who still care.”—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eInspired by forests, trees, leaves, roots, and seeds, \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Trees: A Rewilding of Literature and Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 creation myths 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Language of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIntroduction | Ross Gay | xi\u003cbr\u003e\nTree Alphabet | KATIE HOLTEN | xiv\u003cbr\u003e\nTrees Typeface (A Rewilding Tool) | KATIE HOLTEN | xv\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSEEDS, SOIL, SAPLINGS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Ojibwe New Year | WINONA LaDUKE | 3\u003cbr\u003e\nHe who plants a tree Plants a hope | LUCY LARCOM | 7\u003cbr\u003e\nMichael Hamburger | TACITA DEAN | 9\u003cbr\u003e\nI am the seed of the free | SOJOURNER TRUTH | 11P\u003cbr\u003e\nalas por Pistolas | PEDRO REYES | 13\u003cbr\u003e\nAcorn Bread Recipe | LUCY O’HAGAN | 15\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBUDS, BARK, BRANCHES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nOak Gall Ink Recipe | RACHAEL HAWKWIND | 19\u003cbr\u003e\nBranches, Leaves, Roots and Trunks | ROBERT MACFARLANE | 23\u003cbr\u003e\nTree Theory, Biogeography and Branching | BRIAN J. ENQUIST | 29\u003cbr\u003e\nCultivating the Courage to Sin | ANDREA BOWERS | 33\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Wrong Trees | ZADIE SMITH | 35\u003cbr\u003e\nFractal Vision | JAMES GLEICK | 37\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eLEAVES \u0026amp; TRUNKS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nIt’s the Season I Often Mistake | ADA LIMÓN | 43\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom Why Information Grows | CÉSAR A. HIDALGO | 45\u003cbr\u003e\nTree University | FUTUREFARMERS | 47\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom Funes, the Memorious | JORGE LUIS BORGES | 49\u003cbr\u003e\nUnder a Plane Tree | PLATO | 51\u003cbr\u003e\nFake Plastic Trees | RADIOHEAD | 55\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Trees Breathe Out, We Breathe In | LUCHITA HURTADO | 57\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Elm Stand | THOMAS PRINCEN | 59\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Exact Opposite of Distance | IRENE KOPELMAN | 63\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Innocence of Trees | AGNES MARTIN | 65\u003cbr\u003e\nMedicine of the Tree People | VALERIE SEGREST | 67\u003cbr\u003e\nBlad 2 \/ Leaf 2 | ÅSE EG JØRGENSEN | 69\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFLOWERS \u0026amp; FRUITS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom Sketch of the Analytical Engine | ADA LOVELACE | 73\u003cbr\u003e\nAn Droighneán Donn | SUSAN McKEOWN | 75\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Tree with the Apple Tattoo | NICOLA TWILLEY | 77\u003cbr\u003e\nMillenniums of Intervention | AMY HARMON | 81\u003cbr\u003e\nCacao: The World Tree and Her Planetary Mission | JONATHON MILLER WEISBERGER | 85\u003cbr\u003e\nTree of Life | ROZ NAYLOR | 91\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFORESTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nTwo Trees Make a Forest | JESSICA J. LEE | 97\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Word for World is Forest | URSULA K. LE GUIN | 99\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom How Forests Think | EDUARDO KOHN | 101\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom Forests | GAIA VINCE | 107Bewilderness | E.J. McADAMS | 111\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom Islands on Dry Land | ELIZABETH KOLBERT | 113\u003cbr\u003e\nGhost Forest | MAYA LIN | 117\u003cbr\u003e\nForest | FORREST GANDER and KATIE HOLTEN | 121\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nFAMILY TREES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nBeing | TANAYA WINDER | 127\u003cbr\u003e\nBRUTES: Meditations on the myth of the voiceless | AMITAV GHOSH | 129\u003cbr\u003e\nTrophic Cascade | CAMILLE T. DUNGY | 133\u003cbr\u003e\nCatalpa Tree | AIMEE NEZHUKUMATAtHI | 135\u003cbr\u003e\nNotes for a Salmon Creek Farm Revival | FRITZ HAEG | 141\u003cbr\u003e\nWe Are the ARK | MARY REYNOLDS | 145\u003cbr\u003e\nAmong the Trees | CARL PHILLIPS | 149\u003cbr\u003e\nMother Trees | SUZANNE SIMARD | 157\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTREE TIME\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nTree Clocks and Climate Change | NICOLE DAVI | 161\u003cbr\u003e\nfrom Alphabet | INGER CHRISTENSEN | 165\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Horse Chestnut | CHARLES GAINES | 167\u003cbr\u003e\nFuture Library | KATIE PATERSON | 169\u003cbr\u003e\nLiberty Trees | ROBERT SULLIVAN | 171\u003cbr\u003e\nJanuary 23, 2015 | ANDREA ZITTEL | 179\u003cbr\u003e\nA Matter of Time | AMY FRANCESCHINI | 181\u003cbr\u003e\nAll the Time in the World | RACHEL SUSSMAN | 185\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTREE PEOPLE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nMujer Waorani \/ Waorani Women | NEMO ANDY GUIQUITA | 191\u003cbr\u003e\nTREE x OFFICE | NATALIE JEREMIJENKO | 193\u003cbr\u003e\nThis is not our world with trees in it | RICHARD POWERS | 195\u003cbr\u003e\nI Want to Be a Tree | SUMANA ROY | 197\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat’s Happening? | EXTINCTION SYMBOL | 199\u003cbr\u003e\nDeclaration of Interbeing | KINARI WEBB | 203\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eROOTS \u0026amp; RESISTANCE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy Are There No Trees in Paleolithic Cave Drawings? | WILLIAM CORWIN and COLIN RENFREW | 207\u003cbr\u003e\nSpeaking of Nature | ROBIN WALL KIMMERER | 211\u003cbr\u003e\n“Joy is Such a Human Madness”: The Duff Between Us | ROSS GAY | 223\u003cbr\u003e\nOf Trees In Paint; In Teeth; In Wood; In Sheet-Iron; In Stone; In Mountains; In Stars | AENGUS WOODS | 225\u003cbr\u003e\nLegere and ß?ß???????: The Library as Idea and Space | ANNA-SOPHIE SPRINGER | 233\u003cbr\u003e\nLessons from Fungi | TOBY KIERS | 241\u003cbr\u003e\nThey Carry Us With Them: The Great Tree Migration | CHELSEA STEINAUER-SCUDDER | 245\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eAFTER TREES\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nAfterword: Another World is Possible | KATIE HOLTEN | 253\u003cbr\u003e\nBibliograph | 259\u003cbr\u003e\nSources | 279\u003cbr\u003e\nContributors | 287\u003cbr\u003e\nAcknowledgments | 299\u003cbr\u003e\nColophon | 304\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Over 50 writings from notable authors, philosophers, scientists and artists—including Plato, Ursula K. Le Guin and Ada Limón—are delicately translated into Holten’s visual “tree alphabet” in this ode to the world’s trees.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Striking.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Inspiring. . . . insights that are scientific, intimate and surprising. . . . a call to action for those who still care.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An unexpected mix of poems, essays, quotations, song lyrics, recipes, and other texts. . . . offering diverse perspectives on those towering woody plants and their relationship to human life.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning. . . . I’ve never seen anything remotely like this work of art.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Page\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An appealing, celebratory offering with an urgent message.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Unmissable.\"—\u003cb\u003eLitHub\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Science and storytelling are braided with history and art to create something quietly urgent and beautiful here. This is nature writing in a new way, full of tree magic.\"—\u003cb\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Celebratory. . . . delightful. . . . lovely as both exercise and artifact.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eOrion Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Incredibly refreshing. . . . A stunning celebration of trees through the ages, this book is sure to spark passion with every passing page.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An imaginative compilation of poems and stories translated into a stunning visual language based on trees. . . . Perfect for an evening meditative read, or for placing out on your coffee table to share with friends.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eDistrict Fray Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An astonishing fusion of storytelling \u0026amp; art, and a deeply beautiful celebration of trees through the ages.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWrite or Die Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Absorbing. . . . offers knowledge and inspiration alike.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrontier Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Revelatory. . . . Wondrous. . . . An exquisite ode to all things arboreal.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stunning. . . . a beautiful, artistic rendering of the many ways trees nourish and undergird our world.\"—\u003cb\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most exquisite books inspired by trees in recent memory.\"—\u003cb\u003eTertulia\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Touching. . . . An ode to literature, language, and nature that intertwines and loops like branches of a tree.\"—\u003cb\u003eAirmail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eThe Language of Trees\u003c\/i\u003e Katie Holten plants trees in our imagination, transferring them from objects of outdoor devotion to subjects of deep contemplation.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A masterpiece. Katie Holten's tree alphabet is a gift to the printed world.\"—\u003cb\u003eMax Porter, author of \u003ci\u003eGrief Is a Thing with Feathers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatie Holten\u003c\/b\u003e is an artist and activist. In 2003, she represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale. She has had solo exhibitions at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Nevada Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane. Her drawings investigate the tangled relationships between humans and the natural world. She has created Tree Alphabets, a Stone Alphabet, and a Wildflower Alphabet to share the joy she finds in her love of the more-than-human world. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003efrieze\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a visiting lecturer at the New School of the Anthropocene. If she could be a tree, she would be an Oak.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRoss Gay\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Delights\u003c\/i\u003e, a genre-defying book of essays, and three books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eAgainst Which\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBringing the Shovel Down\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCatalog of Unabashed Gratitude\u003c\/i\u003e. He is also the co-author, with Aimee Nezhukumatathil, of the chapbook \"Lace and Pyrite: Letters from Two Gardens,\" in addition to being co-author, with Richard Wehrenberg, Jr., of the chapbook, \"River.\" He is a founding editor, with Karissa Chen and Patrick Rosal, of the online sports magazine Some Call it Ballin', in addition to being an editor with the chapbook presses Q Avenue and Ledge Mule Press. Ross is a founding board member of the Bloomington Community Orchard, a non-profit, free-fruit-for-all food justice and joy project. He has received fellowships from Cave Canem, the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, and the Guggenheim Foundation. Ross teaches at Indiana University.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233693020389,"sku":"NP9781953534682","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781953534682.jpg?v=1767740109","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-language-of-trees-isbn-9781953534682","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}