A book titled "A Field Guide to North American Trees" by Loblolly Press, showing illustrated tree species and habitat pages.
A book titled "A Field Guide to North American Trees" by Loblolly Press, showing tree illustrations and habitat descriptions.
A book titled "A Field Guide to North American Trees" by Loblolly Press, showing colorful illustrations of various tree species.
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A book titled "A Field Guide to North American Trees" by Loblolly Press, showing a colorful tree illustration on the cover.
A book titled "A Field Guide to North American Trees" by Loblolly Press, showing the cover with illustrations of various trees.
A Field Guide to North American Trees

A Field Guide to North American Trees

by Garrett Ashley

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This poetry chapbook is a vivid, intimate collection of poems that invites us to see ourselves within the world around us. Each poem is named after a tree — most of them native to the Southeastern US — forming a rich landscape where roots, rings, and branches become a way of understanding human connection, transformation, and renewal.

Offering a captivating preview of Ashley’s forthcoming full-length collection, Habitats, this chapbook reveals a green world that is as much a mirror to ourselves as it is a thriving ecosystem.

Garrett Ashley’s work has appeared in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Normal School, Sonora Review, Analog SF&F, DIAGRAM, Reed Magazine, and Sequestrum. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi's Center for Writers and teaches creative writing at Tuskegee University in Alabama. He is also the author of Peraphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions (Press 53, 2024), and his next collection, Habitats, is forthcoming from Loblolly Press in April 2026.

Praise

In Garrett Ashley’s splendid Field Guide to North American Trees the trees speak for themselves. Who says that anthropomorphizing nature is wrong? Certainly not when Ashley records this strange and pungent testament. Reading these sylvan voices is an adventure you won’t soon forget.
— Angela Ball
The poems in Field Guide to North American Trees are polyvocal, uncanny, pulsing with desire. Inviting readers to consider roots, needles, nodes, and ring scars, Garrett Ashley takes us to an interconnected world, a “green ocean,” a pinewood where trees summon for us loved and lost ones, where “understories are people and the wind is a bird.”
— William Woolfit
In A Field Guide to North American Trees, Garrett Ashley moves through the landscape with exacting precision. Each poem, a tree—ripe with its own telling. As the poet walks, we walk alongside him, rewarded by this trek. We find ourselves here—and everywhere emotionally—yet rooted by the act of witnessing. From Garrett’s forest, we glean undeniably raw, but necessary understories.
— Glenis Redmond

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