A mini-look at J.P. White's A Tree Becomes a Room
My favorite poem in the collection is also the last poem: "About That Love Letter to the Earth." The speaker tells us of waking each morning to write a poem essentially to the Earth filled with hope.
Tell the earth, as long as I am able
I will keep coming back to my chair in the dark
To hunt, to wreste, to pray.
As a final poem, the speaker wraps up many themes in the book but also leaves the reader with hope for humanity and our place on the Earth. In essence, the speaker goes through many concerns we all have in the age of climate change, yet unlike many of us, the speaker still has hope. It's good to see, and that idea of protecting our hope in life seems central to what poetry should be doing now.
You can find the book here: https://www.whitepine.org/tree-becomes-a-room
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