Oaks are some of our oldest companions, and have been rooted in
human imagination and language for millennia. Their great, slow
lives have always demanded our careful consideration (indeed
Virginia Woolf's Orlando took 300 years over their own quercian
epic). Katharine Towers' new sequence of poems accompanies the oak
from acorn to grave, and into its afterlife; playful, lyric and
lucid, Oak is also shot through with an ecocritical awareness that
renders it utterly contemporary. Towers' precise eye and gift for
sharp comparison allows us to enter into the life of the tree, and
the birds and insects and plants it hosts; it shows how its seven
ages echo and rhyme with our own, and how, by implication, we may
also be tied to the same cycle of death and renewal. Oak wins its
power through an extraordinary act of imaginative voicing, and
accomplishes the most important work of the nature poem: to take
the reader out of themselves, and into the larger world they also
inhabit.
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