For thousands of years humans have variously worshipped trees, made use of them, admired them, and destroyed them and poets have long chronicled the relationship. In this collection, Robert Frosts Birches, Marianne Moores The Camperdown Elm, Gerard Manley Hopkinss Binsey Poplars, and Zbigniew Herberts Sequoia stand tall beside Eugenio Montales The Lemon Trees, Yves Bonnefoys The Apples, Bertolt Brechts The Plum Tree, D. H. Lawrences The Almond Tree, and A. E. Housmans Loveliest of Trees. Whether showing their subjects being planted or felled, cherished or lamented, towering in forests or ?owering in backyards, the poems collected here pay lyrical tribute to these majestic beings with whom we share the earth.
