Land Trust
Review
Katherine Hagopian Berry's LandTrust is a field guide io a renewed relationship'with place. Each poem in this book, written as its own beautiful journey, offers a way into an exploration. Not just of the many places that Hagopian Berry writes about, but into our own inner landscapes. As we move through the poems on the page, we also journey through the ways we think about and see the land and ourselves. LandTrust is an elegantly written, personal invitation to recovering our oldest relationship. This book has to power to heal - as we restore our own inner landscapes, we are moved to restore the land.
CMARIE FUHRMAN,
DIRECTOR OF POETRY,
GRADUATE PROGRAM IN CREATIVE WRITING,
WESTERN COLORADO UNIVERSITY
Review
In LandTrust, poems wind and unwind in spirals, from heartbreak to healing, from the extinction of species to mud season in Maine. With clarity and skill, the speaker explores her position in our environmental crisis. Hagopian Berry asks: Imagine me / standing like a dragonfly / at your shoulder. With devastating humor - The ivory-billed woodpecker was declared extinct today / which is why I threw a fit about paper napkins - the reader is held gently. In this startling collection, Hagopian Berry's poems expose our vulnerabilities but ultimately name our power and gave us breath.
ROBERT CARR,
AUTHOR OF THE UNBUTTONED EYE
(3: A TAOS PRESS, 2019)