Tree Fall with Birdsong - Softcover

Dunkelberg, Kendall

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1594981604 ISBN 13: 9781594981609

Publisher: Fernwood Press, 2025

Synopsis

Tree Fall with Birdsong explores the natural world around the poet's home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled. These poems look to the natural life cycle as a corollary of loss and renewal, both in response to illness and death of family and friends and to the collective sense of grief in the wake of the recent pandemic. Often overlooked details of daily life and nature lead to deep insight. Mortality, seen in "Tree Fall" with the loss of steadfast and familiar trees, is complemented by the creative force of "Birdsong." The poems range in form and length from narrative free verse to a sequence of haiku, a pantoum, a ghazal, and a creation story. They include ekphrastic poems, retell myths of the underworld, and connect to the lore of wildflowers, snakes, birds, and trees.

About this title

About the Author

Kendall Dunkelberg directs the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing at Mississippi University for Women. He is editor of Poetry South and has three previous poetry collections, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures and the textbook, A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing. His poems appear in Attached to the Living World: A New Ecopoetry Anthology and Southern Voices: Fifty Contemporary Poets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fernwood Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1594981604
• ISBN 13: 9781594981609
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106