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Thinking with Trees (Paperback): Jason Allen-Paisant

Thinking with Trees (Paperback)

Jason Allen-Paisant

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Winner of the Poetry Category OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2022. An Irish Times Best Poetry Books of 2021. A White Review Book of the Year 2021. Jason Allen-Paisant grew up in a village in central Jamaica. 'Trees were all around,' he writes, 'we often went to the yam ground, my grandmother's cultivation plot. When I think of my childhood, I see myself entering a deep woodland with cedars and logwood all around. [...] The muscular guango trees were like beings among whom we lived.' Now he lives in Leeds, near a forest where he goes walking. 'Here, trees represent an alternative space, a refuge from an ultra-consumerist culture...' And even as they help him recover his connections with nature, these poems are inevitably political. As Malika Booker writes, 'Allen-Paisant's poetic ruminations deceptively radicalise Wordsworth's pastoral scenic daffodils. The collection racializes contemporary ecological poetics and its power lies in Allen-Paisant's subtle destabilization of the ordinary dog walker's right to space, territory, property and leisure by positioning the colonised Black male body's complicated and unsafe reality in these spaces.'

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Imprint: Carcanet Press Ltd
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2021
Authors: Jason Allen-Paisant
Dimensions: 216 x 135 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 978-1-80017-113-8
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN: 1-80017-113-7
Barcode: 9781800171138

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