Little Terrarium
Fries writes poems about roots, soil and small enclosed worlds, arguing by sustained attention that what happens underground holds everything above it in place.
Poems attentive to roots, soil, and the small enclosed worlds we build and observe. Fries writes at the seam between the natural sciences and lyric attention, and the collection reads as a sustained argument for looking closely at what is underfoot: the relations below ground that hold everything above it in place.
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Maria Popova
As it happens, my friend Hannah Fries has just the right poem to reverence this existential dimension of roots and their relations, found in her altogether wonderful collection Little Terrarium (public library)
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