How I Became a Tree - Couverture souple

Roy, Sumana

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300268149 ISBN 13 : 9780300268140

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2022

Synopsis

An exquisite, lovingly crafted meditation on plants, trees, and our place in the natural world, in the tradition of Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek<br /><br />“Sumana Roy has written―grown―a radiant and wondrous book.”―Robert Macfarlane, author of The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot<br /><br />“Beautiful. . . . Roy weaves together science, nature, personal narrative, literature, sociology, and more to keep the reader turning pages―and to turn us all into tree-lovers.”―Kateri Kramer, The Rumpus<br /><br />A Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2021 selection<br /><br /> “I was tired of speed. I wanted to live to tree time.” So writes Sumana Roy at the start of How I Became a Tree, her captivating, adventurous, and self-reflective vision of what it means to be human in the natural world.<br /><br /> Drawn to trees’ wisdom, their nonviolent way of being, their ability to cope with loneliness and pain, Roy movingly explores the lessons that writers, painters, photographers, scientists, and spiritual figures have gleaned through their engagement with trees―from Rabindranath Tagore to Tomas Tranströmer, Ovid to Octavio Paz, William Shakespeare to Margaret Atwood. Her stunning meditations on forests, plant life, time, self, and the exhaustion of being human evoke the spacious, relaxed rhythms of the trees themselves.<br /><br /> Hailed upon its original publication in India as “a love song to plants and trees” and “an ode to all that is unnoticed, ill, neglected, and yet resilient,” How I Became a Tree blends literary history, theology, philosophy, botany, and more, and ultimately prompts readers to slow down and to imagine a reenchanted world in which humans live more like trees.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Sumana Roy is associate professor of English and creative writing at Ashoka University in Haryana, India. She is the author of Missing: A Novel, Out of Syllabus: Poems, and My Mother's Lover and Other Stories.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• ISBN 10: 0300268149
• ISBN 13: 9780300268140
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 248
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible