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Limber : essays / Angela Pelster.

by Pelster, Angela, 1975-

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Sarabande Books, 2014.

Canadian essays -- 21st century.

Trees -- Symbolism.

9781936747757 (pbk.)

1936747758 (pbk.)

154 p. ; 20 cm.

Les oiseaux -- By way of beginning -- Burmis -- Ethan Lockwood -- Meditations on a tree frog -- The boys of Lake Karachay -- Temple -- Portrait of a mango -- Saskatoons -- Inheritance -- Moon trees -- Rot -- Inosculation -- Artifacts -- How trees came to be in the world -- Living in the trees -- Cardinal.

"An essay collection charting the world's history through holes in the ground, rings across wood, mountains, figs, and a body's evolution. Essays move from her rural Canadian childhood to a desert in Niger, where "The Loneliest Tree in the World" once grew. In her backyard, a squirrel's decomposing body below a towering maple prompts a discussion of the science of rot, as well as a metaphor for the ways in which nature programs us to consume ourselves. Pelster is a writer who looks and listens closely: She watches tree frogs and questions how long we can love one another, she listens to the music of an artist who places paper-thin slices of sectioned tree trunks on his record player and hears the sounds' mourning. Beautiful, deeply thoughtful, and wholly original, Limber valiantly asks what it means to sustain life on this planet we've inherited. Angela Pelster's essays have appeared in Granta, The Globe and Mail, Relief Magazine, and other publications. Her children's novel The Curious Adventures of India Sophia won the Golden Eagle Children's Choice award in 2006. A native of Canada, Angela now teaches creative writing at Towson University in Baltimore."--Provided by publisher.

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