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See also https://emergencemagazine.org/story/t...Fred BahnsonFred Bahnson teaches at Wake Forest University School of Divinity, where he directs the Food, Health, and Ecological Well-Being Program. He is the author of Soil and Sacrament(Simon & Schuster), and his essays have appeared in Harper’s, The Sun, Orion, and The Best American Spiritual Writing. He is a recipient of the Kellogg Food and Community Fellowship, the North Carolina Artist Fellowship, and the Terry Tempest Williams Fellowship f...
Trees are their own brilliance, and numerous entries in this anthology make that point far more eloquently than I've either the time or space here. For those pieces, this is an anthology well worth picking up, and it is a collection to which I am sure I will return repeatedly. For several of my favorite pieces, this serves as an introduction to new (to me) authors as well, which is an additional reward, and I'm excited in the future to track down some of those authors' other works.[5 stars for o...
The collection of essays in Rooted exhibits the breadth of human beings' relationships with trees, from a source of wonder to a source of food. While this is good for representing diversity of experience, it can make for stories that feel only tangentially tied to one another as well as a few that are only tangentially tied to trees. There is for sure a sort of undercurrent of reverence for trees, but some works feel like paeans and others like excerpts from memoirs. A number of the stories felt...
Equally about trees and the human experience: childhood, coming of age, the death of loved ones and the fallibility of the authors' own bodies. I was intrigued at times, touched at others, and reminded throughout of trees I have known.
