The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year
Fifty-two weeks of watching a single Nashville garden, written about loss and climate grief without that phrase appearing once anywhere.
Fifty-two short chapters, one for each week, watching a single Nashville garden through a year of birds, insects, weather and loss. Renkl writes about climate grief without ever using the phrase, and the form does the work: attention repeated until it becomes something closer to a practice.
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In The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year (public library), Margaret Renkl chronicles her own reverence of reality across the seasons through the small acts of attention to wind and wren, to hemlock and hawk, which together reveal the grandeur of life.
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