To 2040 by Jorie Graham Jen Campbell the hanging tree of the

the hanging tree of the pine and the poison death yew

subtle and substantial

whose fragmented memories of political turmoil in twentieth-century China are sensitively threaded through the book in an eight-part poetic sequence

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To 2040 by Jorie Graham Jen Campbell the hanging tree of theTo 2040 begins with question masquerading as fact: 'Are we extinct yet. Who owns the map.' These visionary new poems reveal Graham as historian, cartographer, prophet, plotting an apocalyptic world where rain must be translated, silence sings louder than speech, and wired birds parrot recordings of their extinct ancestors. In one poem, the speaker is warned by a clairvoyant, 'the American experiment will end in 2030'. Graham exposes a potentially