This One Tree

by Katie Peterson

“By looking at the world on behalf of the world, [This One Tree] offers its poetry up as a self-portrait of the world. And with what new powers of description, powers that balance all the warring senses of this currently discredited activity of poetry by committing to the genius of place, of the scribe, and of ‘scribble,’ or language itself. And with what visual command sponsored by what insistent powers of hearing, the senses at their beginning again as they, too, always were and always will be.”
―William Olsen, from the foreword

Genres: Poetry

98 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2006

Reviews

[Kasey Jueds · Rating 5 out of 5]

It always makes me so happy--it feels like an unexpected gift--when I find a new poet to love. This book is smart and strange in the best possible way, unexpected, and very moving. It's deeply intimate although it doesn't tell a story in any sort of linear, traditionally autobiographical way. Plus it's beautiful, startling, wise.

[Molly · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is brilliant, obviously.

[Maggie Glover · Rating 5 out of 5]

I frickin love this book.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

There are a handful of poems in here that I really, really love.