Leaning toward Light
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This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal—an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world.
Caring for plants (much like reading a good poem) brings comfort, solace, and...Published By Storey Publishing, LLC
Format Hardback
Category
Number Of Pages 200
Publication Date 08/29/2023
ISBN 9781635865806
Dimensions 6.25 inches x 8.25 inches
“Leaning toward the Light is an exceptionally pretty poetry collection.”
“A rich and varied collection.”
“After a summer rife with extreme weather events … readers could use a reminder that a more caring relationship with Earth is possible. They will find it in Leaning toward Light.”
“This collection brings together many of my favorite writers to celebrate the limitless offerings of nature; wandering through its pages feels like taking a long stroll through a beautiful garden.”
“Among the many things to love about this beautiful anthology is that it reminds us that gardening is a gathering practice, a practice of gathering, and the more we do it together—with collaborators human, critterly, fungal, floral, meteorological, cosmic, unborn, living, living now as soil, etc.—the better, by which I mean the more lovingly, the more belovingly, the more truly, we do it.”
“It’s thrilling to see in these pages a reflection of the world I want to live in.”
“As Aimee Nezhukamatathil reminds us in the delightful and informative foreword to this bountiful collection, the word anthology means a gathering of flowers. How perfect is this bouquet! Diverse and delightful. At turns, tender and tough. I'm sure I'll be reading the poems gathered in this anthology for years to come.”
“Leaning toward Light” is both a loving tribute to the natural world and a recognition of the profound need for the human spirit to be connected to the gardens of the world if we are to thrive. The artwork and recipes makes this gathering of poems even more delicious.”
“I’m reminded that in 1629 John Parkinson wrote an herbal, or plant compendium, entitled “In Sole, Paradisus Terrestris: “a sunny garden of earthly pleasures.” What an apt phrase for Taylor’s fruitful, rich, and earthy book.”
“A gorgeous book in both content and as an artful object, this collection of garden poems is a necessary addition to any cultivator’s library.”