Ghosts of Distant Trees - Softcover

Watson, Erica

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1736755854 ISBN 13: 9781736755853

Verlag: Porphyry Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

In Ghosts of Distant Trees, Erica Watson traces the layered ecologies of Denali National Park, Alaska-its vast, shifting landscape, seasonal labor rhythms, and the subtle politics of inhabitation. Through lyric and narrative essays, she explores how built environments like Denali's single road shape encounters with land, gender, weather, and community. Turning from iconic vistas to gravel, orange peels, and garden beds, Watson asks what it might be like "to get to know a place without immediately thinking of what threatens it." Haunted by fire and thaw, these essays resist elegy, offering instead a complex meditation on belonging, vulnerability, and the fragile intimacies that persist in a warming world. This is writing attuned to detail, disruption, and the ethics of attention.

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Erica Watson is an essayist, writing instructor, knitter, and occasional community organizer living on the boundary of Denali National Park, Alaska. Her experiences in conservation advocacy, tourism, and environmental education inform her writing, which has appeared in Terrain.org and About Place Journal, among others. She is a graduate of the University of Alaska Anchorage MFA program, and a recipient of an Alaska Literary Award. Off the page, she can be found at ericarobinwatson.com, or hiking and skiing with her partner and dog.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Porphyry Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1736755854
• ISBN 13: 9781736755853
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 194
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