When We Become Trees - Paperback

by Anna Elkins (Author)

Enter a forest of poems about patience, grace, and wonder. About discovering the code of abiding life already within us. When We Become Trees cultivates the tension of becoming: rooting down while reaching up and trying to see heaven on earth--trying to find the divine even among the rocks around us. These one hundred poems speak with motifs of soil, sky, and time. They ask, they offer: "Make my life this: / a ready harvest / given, taken, tasted." This is a book for those who, like trees, are willing to grow "ring-slow but steady."

Author Biography

Anna Elkins is a poet and painter. She earned a BA in art and English, an MFA in poetry, and a Fulbright Fellowship to write in Germany. She has written, painted, and taught on six continents, exhibiting paintings and publishing books along the way, including her poetry collection, Hope of Stones, which won an Oregon Book Award. Anna now lives in a small town on a big river with her husband and many trees.