Description
A luminous collection of poems exploring intimacy, wholeness, memory, and the ways history is endured by both people and the natural world. Drawing on solitary walks, garden work, birdsong, rain, and the shifting life of the forest, these poems find spiritual depth in attentive encounters with place. At the same time, they confront environmental destruction and the threatened loss of species, giving the book an elegiac and quietly urgent power. Infused with Buddhist thought, ecological awareness, and a profound faith in language, the collection reflects a mature poet’s search for wonder, connection, and renewal.
Available Editions
paperback
Knopf
Published Jan 1, 1989
78 pages
ISBN: 0394758587
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Details
First Published
1987
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Rain in the Trees by W. S. Merwin.