Tree Spirits Grass Spirits Verity Spott Prynne as “breathtakingly lovely

Prynne as “breathtakingly lovely

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Poems between natural and human history

and self: “Every animal is deadly / even the shape-shifter

Tree Spirits Grass Spirits Verity Spott Prynne as “breathtakingly lovelyHiromi Ito Written between April 2012 and November 2013, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits adopts a non linear narrative flow that mimics the growth of plants, and can be read as a companion piece to Ito's beloved poem "Wild Grass on the Riverbank". Rather than the vertiginously violent poetics of the latter, Tree Spirits Grass Spirits serves as what we might call a phyto autobiography: a recounting of one's life through the logic of flora. Ito's graciously