Forest by JLM Morton Mario Petrucci the immigrant

the immigrant

the concrete jungle of Manhattan

from meter and rhyme

prose poem

and no living poet has managed to both enrich the tapestry of contemporary poetry and expand it so dramatically: his poems appeal to readers and live audiences across the globe

Forest by JLM Morton Mario Petrucci the immigrantForest recounts the legend of the black pine that was the first tree to arrive in the young woodland at Sladebank, where Juliette has been working as a poet in residence. Pines are a very ancient genus, emerging in the Jurassic period. The black pine at Sladebank is first shown on an 1880 map; it then appears on an aerial photograph from 1933, and by 2023 when it appears on Googlemaps, it's merged entirely with the young woodland. A non narrative,