{"id":146939,"date":"2020-08-18T13:00:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=146939"},"modified":"2020-08-25T11:01:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T15:01:53","slug":"redux-the-missing-trees-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/redux-the-missing-trees-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Missing Tree\u2019s Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146942\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7507\/the-art-of-poetry-no-106-rae-armantrout\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146942\" class=\"wp-image-146942 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/rae.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/rae.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/rae-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/rae-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rae Armantrout. Courtesy of Rae Armantrout.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re dwelling on the environment. Read on for Rae Armantrout\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7507\/the-art-of-poetry-no-106-rae-armantrout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Poetry interview<\/a>, Leigh Newman\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7451\/howl-palace-leigh-newman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howl Palace<\/a>,\u201d and M\u00f3nica de la Torre\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7150\/boxed-in-monica-de-la-torre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boxed In<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFR&amp;type=S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>? Or, better yet, subscribe to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/nyb\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=NYB&amp;publ=NY&amp;key_code=EXFGPRN&amp;type=S\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">our special summer offer<\/a>\u00a0with\u00a0<em>The New York Review of Books<\/em>\u00a0for only $99. And for as long as we\u2019re flattening the curve,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0will be sending out a weekly newsletter, The Art of Distance, featuring unlocked archival selections, dispatches from the\u00a0<em>Daily<\/em>, and efforts from our peer organizations. Read the latest edition\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/theparisreview.org\/the-art-of-distance-no-135630\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=35491ea532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7507\/the-art-of-poetry-no-106-rae-armantrout\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rae Armantrout, The Art of Poetry No. 106<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 231, Winter 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I write about climate change, I tend to write about the ways we try to escape from it in fantasy, the ways we fool ourselves. I write from a complicit position because I know I\u2019m part of the problem. Of course, we need governments to act, to restrain coal production and find alternative fuels. But I\u2019m not totally innocent, always getting on airplanes and flying to conferences and readings, putting jet fuel into the atmosphere. And I do use a lot of paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146945\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7451\/howl-palace-leigh-newman\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146945\" class=\"wp-image-146945 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/newman.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/newman.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/newman-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/newman-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Mihael Simoni\u010d. CC BY-SA (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0). Via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7451\/howl-palace-leigh-newman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Howl Palace<\/a><br \/>\nBy Leigh Newman<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 230, Fall 2019<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWell,\u201d he said. \u201cYou got me, Dutch.\u201d He laughed. I didn\u2019t. Another leaf blazed down toward us. Fall lasts for weeks now\u2014which, despite my best efforts, still befuddles me. All my life, fall took about three days in August, the leaves dropping almost overnight, followed by a licorice snow taste in the wind. Global warming, the papers say, though almost all the articles talk about are the dying caribou and the starving puffins, never the less obvious, alarming changes of every day\u2014and the guilt about living in an oil state that goes along with it. As if the rest of the country, sucking up all that oil and burning all that coal, isn\u2019t also to blame.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_146946\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7150\/boxed-in-monica-de-la-torre\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-146946\" class=\"wp-image-146946 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/torre.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/torre.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/torre-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/torre-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-146946\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Karduelis. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7150\/boxed-in-monica-de-la-torre\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Boxed In<\/a><br \/>\nBy M\u00f3nica de la Torre<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 224, Spring 2018<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Heads up, false friends use familiarity as camouflage.<br \/>\nIn the source language <em>deciduous<\/em> might be confused with <em>apathy<\/em>,<br \/>\nbut nothing could be further away from <em>desidia<\/em> than the timed impermanence of leaves.<br \/>\nYes, even forests engage in a form of family planning.<br \/>\nWe took for granted the tree outside our window until it failed to bud.<br \/>\nA ginkgo, they cut it down when the building across the street went up.<br \/>\nSince our view is limited, we like to imagine the situation from the missing tree\u2019s perspective.<br \/>\nGiven the recent turn of events, it might have resisted blooming.<br \/>\nIt was protesting its decorative use to boost property values.<br \/>\nOr perhaps after millennia of honing its particulars, it refused \u201cthe magic of tree-lined streets.\u201d<br \/>\nConcrete blocks these social beings\u2019 access to fungal networks,<br \/>\nprevents their roots from interconnecting.<br \/>\nAre you a reluctant loner like the specimens that surround us here today?<br \/>\nI hope you understand I don\u2019t mean to ruin the relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To read more from the\u00a0<\/em>Paris Review<em>\u00a0archives, make sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! 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