Manual of Woody Plants

"The product of years of investigation and husbandry, Phil Cordelli's Manual of Woody Plants is a field guide to the workings of memory and perception within the creeping and ebbing of the natural world. The poems, each named for a type of North American flora, move with a light precision through the myriad intricacies and immensities that combine to form each human ecosystem--and explore how these systems blend from one person to the next."--Publisher description.