Tree Spirits Grass SpiritsHiromi Ito Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can be read as a companion piece to Ito's beloved poem "Wild Grass on the Riverbank". Rather than the vertiginously violent poetics of the latter, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits serves as what we might call a phyto autobiography: a recounting of one's life through the logic of flora. Ito's graciously

and memoir

Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection 2015 and National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry 2015

XIVLiners includes previously uncollected poems

and a hunger for communion in which near and far collapse

en onderzoekt hij het drama van het offer vanuit verschillende invalshoeken

historical narrative

Toxicon and Arachne

stemmy things is a vision unraveling

a child in Timoka

and the UK

and an afterword by storyteller

will find this book beckoning again and again to offer delicious writing