When is a Burning Tree

Christina Seymour’s generous, insightful When is a Burning Tree shines its brilliance on the unexpected lyrical connections between the human world and the natural one so that under its influence we recognize even the earthworm, with its two sexes and five impossible hearts or the tiniest snail gripping rock-face as fellow travelers exactly as humble as ourselves.

–Lisa Lewis, author of The Body Double and Burned House with Swimming Pool