Her language tumbles like a creek, dances like a flute player. Experience as viewed through lattices, the branches of a tree or the reticulations of the cultures she's adopted. Instead they ramble like her footprints-a crooked braid. While there are stories here, Larson never allows them to unfold in a straight line. " Pleasing Tree is a natural history of Larson's vagrancies: guiding YoungWalkers in the Sonoran wilderness, drinking an Amazonian psychotropic herb on Rockaway Beach, falling in love with a dewdrop above Salt Lake City, pissing in the canyons between the buildings in Manhattan, or walking with an Armenian-Palestinian in Jerusalem's Christian Quarter. It pulses with blood and breath, excrement and the bodies of the living.
This collection crawls with insects, communicative plants, and poetry. Her essays track the impact the often unnoticed has on the human psyche, discovering the awe upon the recognition that even the desert's heart beats. Recalling Biblical and religious sojourns, Larson maps her own travels from the desert to Salt Lake City to New York City to Jerusalem, observing the life that curls in a leaf, the bug that spews cinnamon-flavored goo, and the water that occasionally floods the desert. Beginning with a Mormon-founded experiment in primitive survival, teenagers hike the Arizona desert while Larson shines light on the effects of prolonged exposure to the outdoors, to lands considered inhospitable to life. īrooke Larson's essay collection Pleasing Tree explores the human relationship with the wilderness. Recalling Biblical and religious sojourns, Larson maps her own travels from the desert to Salt Lake City to New York City to Jerusalem, observing the life that curls in a leaf, the bug that spews cinnamon. Brooke Larson's essay collection Pleasing Tree explores the human relationship with the wilderness.
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