15 POETS & WRITERSwhen the Virginia earth was still red as brick and red with life, and though there were other
bridges spanning the river Goose, they would have bound her and brought her across this
one, because this was the bridge that fed into the turnpike that twisted its way through
the green hills and down the valley before bending in one direction, and that direction was
south.” The Water Dancer (One World, September 2019) by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Fourth book,
first novel. Agent: Gloria Loomis. Editor: Chris Jackson. Publicist: Gregory Kubie.
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“they’ll arrive at the house / in the poem where the man, / who is the father, who is / the
husband, who is the body / in the earth— / but we haven’t / gotten there yet” Erou (Four
Way Books, September 2019) by Maya Phillips. First book, poetry collection. Agent: None.
Editor: Ryan Murphy. Publicist: Clarissa Long.
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“In the beginning the internet seemed good.” Trick Mirror (Random House, August 2019)
by Jia Tolentino. First book, essay collection. Agent: Amy Williams. Editor: Ben Greenberg.
Publicist: Dhara Parikh.
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“From the first evening in spring to the last vigils of autumn, he sits on the little worm-eaten
hobnailed bench, his body hunched, beneath the window whose jambs frame the night and
the stone wall in a small theatre of shadows.” Animalia (Grove Press, September 2019) by
Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, translated from the French by Frank Wynne. Fourth book, novel.
Agent: Anne-Solange Noble. Editor: Peter Blackstock. Publicist: Kait Astrella.
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“Birds don’t lie / they are never lost / above the earth / they never think / I stole this form
/ or blue is the best” Father’s Day (Copper Canyon Press, September 2019) by Matthew
Zapruder. Sixth book, fifth poetry collection. Agent: Bill Clegg. Editor: Michael Wiegers.
Publicist: Laura Buccieri.
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“God is from Cross River, everyone knows that.” The World Doesn’t Require You (Liveright,
August 2019) by Rion Amilcar Scott. Second book, story collection. Agent: Monika Woods.
Editor: Gina Iaquinta. Publicist: Cordelia Calvert.
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the garden passes into their hands
later this year, Coggins admits it is
bittersweet—Merwin was beloved by
those close to him, as well as by many
readers around the world. But his gar-
den continues on as a living example
of what one person ca n do to conser ve
the earth, even in the face of seem-
ingly overwhelming environmental
concerns—the quickening extinction
of species, increased deforestation in
many regions of the world, climate
change—and the thorny geopolitics
surrounding these issues. As he wrote
in “Place,” a poem from his collec-
tion The Rain in the Trees, published
by Knopf in 1988, “On the last day
of the world / I would want to plant
a tree.” –DANA ISOKAWAstaff plan to launch a residency pro-
gram in 2021 that brings artists,
scientists, policy makers, designers—
anyone with a creative practice—to
Merwin’s home. The nonprofit al-
ready hosts school and artist visits and
educational programs for teachers in
the garden; publishes Merwin’s poems
and information about the palms on
its website; and runs a salon series,
the Green Room, that brings think-
ers and artists such as Richard Powers
and Terry Tempest Williams to Maui
and Oahu. The staff is also planning
fund-raising events across the United
States and a celebration in Maui in
March 2020.
As the conservancy staff prepare
to increase their programming when
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