Leaning toward Light

This beautiful poetry anthology offers a warm, inviting selection of poems from a wide range of voices that speak to the collective urge to grow, tend, and heal-an evocative celebration of our connection to the green world. Much like reading a good poem, caring for plants brings comfort, solace, and joy to many. In this new poetry anthology, Leaning toward Light, acclaimed poet and avid gardener Tess Taylor brings together a diverse range of contemporary voices to offer poems that celebrate that joyful connection to the natural world. Several of the most well-known contemporary writers, as well as some of poetry's exciting rising stars, contribute to this collection including Ross Gay, Jericho Brown, Mark Doty, Jane Hirshfield, Ada Limon, Danusha Lameris, Naomi Shihab Nye, Garrett Hongo, Ellen Bass, and James Crews. A foreword by Aimee Nezhukumatathil, reflective pauses and personal recipes from some of the contributing poets, along with original, whimsical illustrations by Melissa Castrillon, and a ribbon bookmark complete this stunning, hardcover gift format. AUTHOR: Tess Taylor, an avid gardener, is the author of five acclaimed collections of poetry including Work & Days, which was named one of the 10 best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times. Her writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, Poetry, Tin House, The Times Literary Supplement, CNN, and the New York Times. Taylor has been Distinguished Fulbright US Scholar at the Seamus Heaney Centre in Queen's University in Northern Ireland, and the Anne Spencer Poet-in-Residence at Randolph College. She has also served as on-air poetry reviewer for NPR's All Things Considered for over a decade. Taylor lives in El Cerrito, California, where she tends to fruit trees and backyard chickens. SELLING POINTS: . Addition to Storey's best-selling line of themed poetry anthologies. As with Storey's two previous poetry anthologies, How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope and The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, this collection features highly accessible poems suitable for a wide range of readers, including those who may not regularly read poetry . Beautiful gift collection of poems for gardening and nature lovers. Tributes to the natural world from a diverse range of contemporary poets celebrate all aspects of growing in spaces small and large, the joys of homegrown food, and time spent in nature. Colorful chapter openers and spot illustrations, as well as the hardcover format with ribbon bookmark, make this package the perfect keepsake or gift