SEPT OCT 2019 14“Elsie was with Gaspard, her live-in renal-failure patient, when
her ex-husband called to inform her that his girlfriend, Olivia,
had been kidnapped in Port-au-Prince.” Everything Inside
(Knopf, August 2019) by Edwidge Danticat. Thirteenth book,
third story collection. Agent: Nicole Aragi. Editor: Robin Desser.
Publicist: Gabrielle Brooks.
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“I can’t say which ghost / not because I am being coy / and not
because the ghost / is being coy.” Cyborg Detective (BOA Edi-
tions, September 2019) by Jillian Weise. Third book, poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor:
Peter Conners. Publicist: Ron Martin-Dent.
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“But that afternoon there was an orchestra playing.” Red at the Bone (Riverhead Books,
September 2019) by Jacqueline Woodson. Twenty-second book, novel. Agent: Kathleen
Nishimoto. Editor: Sarah McGrath. Publicists: Jynne Dilling Martin and Claire McGinnis.
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“December 7, 1992. Whidbey Island, Puget Sound. The World Wars were over.” Make It
Scream, Make It Burn (Little, Brown, September 2019) by Leslie Jamison. Fourth book,
second essay collection. Agent: Jin Auh. Editor: Ben George. Publicists: Elizabeth Garriga
and Michael Taeckens.
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“I was swimming / with the taste of apple / in my mouth / a shred of appleskin / between
my teeth I guess” Dunce (Wave Books, September 2019) by Mary Ruefle. Seventeenth
book, fourteenth poetry collection. Agent: None. Editor: Joshua Beckman. Publicist: Ryo
Yamaguchi.
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“In order to have a second marriage you can believe in you may have to fail at your first mar-
riage.” The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony (Henry
Holt, August 2019) by Rick Moody. Twelfth book, second memoir. Agent: Melanie Jackson.
Editor: Barbara Jones. Publicist: Marian Brown.
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blue, because that was the way they would have taken her back when I was young, back
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Walter De Maria’s The Lightning Field
and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty, as
well as a feat of conservation. In 2014
the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust
recognized the ecological signifi-
cance of the land by granting it per-
manent protection. Sara Tekula, the
conservancy’s director of programs,
says that palm experts and botanists
who have visited the garden say that
its palms come closest to the “fullest
expression of their wild selves” of any
cultivated specimens they have seen.
Merwin was known for his deep care
and attention to the environment; his
writing often expresses grief toward
mankind’s role in destroying itself and
the land, as well as reverence for the
unknown and the natural world that
connects all beings. Poet Jane Hirsh-
field says he was “a person whose rec-
ognition of the intimacy of all beings
with one another was early and unpar-
alleled.” By growing the palm forest,
Merwin put into practice these values
present in much of his work. “He didn’t
hope for some change to happen else-
where or by someone else’s hand or by
some other force—he knew change
was necessary, and he wanted to repair
the whole legacy of human exception-
alism,” Coggins says. “So he went out
and planted trees. It was agency; it was
creative action.”
The conservancy’s work focuses
on this idea of creative agency and
integrity, or “walking your beliefs,” as
Coggins says. She and the conservancyTRENDS