![]() After walking through desert and beauty and loneliness and light, Larson beams hopeful. It is by getting lost that we can find ourselves. ![]() Plants need dark periods to get nutrients from the light. She asks, “How did I get here?” and the answer seems to be “by contrasts.” We need absence to highlight presence, she contends. Ultimately, Pleasing Tree is written by and for wanderers searching for meaning. Throughout, Larson masterfully balances humor with profundity, using her insights into plant processes to explore questions like “how did I get here?”. Larson’s interactions with trees and other earth things are central to her “earthling” wanderings through the Arizona desert, New York City parks, and Israel in her collection of personal essays, Pleasing Tree. Here is a selection from a forthcoming Dialogue review of Pleasing Tree, by Amy Takabori. A chapbook of her poem-plays, Origami Drama, has recently been published by Quarterly West. ![]() ![]() Her collection of essays, Pleasing Tree, was published in March by Arc Pair Press. ![]() She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University, and is finishing a PhD in English at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Today’s guest post is by Brooke Larson, a writer, collagist, and sometimes wilderness guide. ![]()
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