Thinking With Trees (PDF)
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- Synopsis
- Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he writes, 'we often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot. When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...' And even as they help him recover his connections with nature, these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes, 'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these spaces.'
- Copyright:
- 2021
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 120 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781800171138
- Publisher:
- Carcanet Press, Limited
- Date of Addition:
- 10/18/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Jason Allen-Paisant
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Poetry
- Submitted By:
- Alan Brenik
- Proofread By:
- Alan Brenik
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.