HABITATS + A Field Guide to North American Trees (Exclusive Bundle)
HABITATS and A Field Guide to North American Trees are companion books designed to speak to one another. The chapbook gathers a tree-centered sequence from the heart of HABITATS as a concentrated meditation on place, while the full collection opens those same poems outward, revealing how one way of seeing becomes a path toward understanding home. These two are meant to be together.
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Learn about the author and the bookHABITATS is a poetry collection that moves through shared ecosystems, coastal waterways and tidal rivers, fields and flood plains, pine forests, Southern towns shaped by heat and deterioration, and rural homesteads, tracing how lives unfold under sustained pressure. In these poems, Garrett Ashley follows how ecology and lived experience gather over time into what we call home, across the natural and built environments we share.
Grounded in close observation and narrative focus, HABITATS presents landscapes and domestic spaces as intimate presences, asking how we learn to remain, how we move on, and how place continues to live inside us.
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A FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN TREES is a poetry chapbook that moves through a living taxonomy of trees, many native to the Southeastern United States, tracing how human lives take shape alongside roots, rings, and branching forms. Each poem takes its name from a tree, building a shared landscape where growth, damage, and renewal offer a way of seeing connection and change over time.
Grounded in close attention and lyric clarity, A Field Guide to North American Trees presents the natural world as an intimate counterpart, asking how we recognize ourselves in what surrounds us, how we endure alongside living systems, and how the land continues to mark us as we move through it.
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 where he is the editor-in-chief of The Tuskegee Review. He is also the author of Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions (Press 53, 2024), A Field Guide to North American Trees (Good Printed Things, 2025), and Habitats (Loblolly Press, 2026).
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Hear what writers and readers think of Garrett Ashley's HABITATS + A Field Guide to North American Trees (Exclusive Bundle).How could Garrett Ashley have known how deeply we needed this collection? HABITATS reckons with place while guiding readers through memory with precision and care. These poems offer sanctuary without sentimentality, lingering long after the final page.
Garrett Ashley makes the familiar Southern landscape strange again, moving from trees and beaches to homes and hospital rooms with lyric clarity and emotional depth. These poems ask what we’re truly dwelling in, and what it takes to stay fully human inside the places that shape us.
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.