The Editors
Recent & Forthcoming

Allow us to recommend the following works concerned, as we are, with nature and humanity’s place in it.

• Writing the Land: Northeast, edited by Lis McLoughlin, pairs poets with land trust preserves across New England and tasks each writer to respond to a specific protected landscape. Offers readers literary reflection as well as an introduction to the people and organizations working to conserve these places. Human Error, 2021: $20.
• Christopher Leahy’s Birdpedia compiles centuries of bird lore into a compact alphabetical treasury running from Abundance (an estimated one hundred billion bird species worldwide!) to the migratory restlessness known as Zugunruhe. Topics as varied as mobbing, Shakespeare’s birds, and the mechanics of avian reproduction are illuminated with clarity and wit. Princeton Univ. Press, 2021: $19.95.
• In Ben Okri’s novel Every Leaf a Hallelujah, the Booker Prize-winner turns to ecological fable. A young girl ventures to the forest in search of a mysterious woman rumored to possess the power to heal damaged landscapes. Equal parts myth, environmental warning, and lyrical prose. Apollo (UK), 2021: $17.99.
• In her nature memoir Rooted: Life at the Crossroads of Science, Nature, and Spirit, Lyanda Lynn Haupt invites readers to view their relationship with the living world as embedded participants rather than not as distant observers. Written with the authority of a naturalist and the warmth of a storyteller. Little, Brown Spark, 2021: $28.
• Craig Santos Perez’s Habitat Threshold meditates on climate change, colonial history, and Indigenous stewardship through poems rooted in his homeland of Guam. Melissa Tuckey: “interweaves parental tenderness with knowledge of environmental crisis.” Omnidawn, 2020: $17.95
• Dehesa: El bosque del lince ibérico explores the distinctive dehesa ecosystem of the Iberian Peninsula. Sweeping cinematography makes close observation of both the endangered titular felid and of the centuries-old agricultural practices that help sustain this mosaic of pasture, woodland, and farmland. Directed by Joaquín Gutiérrez Acha, 2020. Streaming online, Spanish, 94 minutes.
  

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