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    The Truth About Trees
    The Truth About Trees
    The Truth About Trees
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    The Truth About Trees

    By Charles Ghigna

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    In a variety of verse forms ranging from free verse to rhymed verse, from serious to witty, Charles Ghigna creates a panorama of 43 poems about nature and The Truth About Trees. Trees become more than a mere metaphor to the poet. Their truth is the truth of man and nature. Their essence transcends

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNegative Capability Press
    Release dateAug 25, 2021
    ISBN9781734590296
    The Truth About Trees
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    Charles Ghigna

    Charles Ghigna (also known as Father Goose) lives in a treehouse in Alabama. He is the author of more than 100 award-winning books for children and adults from Random House, Capstone, Disney, Hyperion, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, Abrams, Charlesbridge and other publishers. His poems appear in hundreds of magazines from The New Yorker and Harper's to Cricket and Highlights. He is a former poetry editor of the English Journal and nationally syndicated feature writer for Tribune Media Services.

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      The Truth About Trees - Charles Ghigna

      The Truth About Trees

      poems

      by Charles Ghigna

      The Truth About Trees

      poems

      by Charles Ghigna

      Negative Capability Press • Mobile, Alabama

      THE TRUTH ABOUT TREES

      poems by Charles Ghigna

      Copyright © 2021 Charles Ghigna. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in critical publications or reviews, no part of this book may be reproduced in any manner without prior written permission from the publisher.

      Negative Capability Press

      negativecapabilitypress.org

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2021943839

      PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-7345902-8-9

      HARDCOVER ISBN: 978-1-7345902-6-5

      EBOOK ISBN: 978-1-7345902-9-6

      Cover art by Chip Ghigna

      Book design by Miles Parsons

      to Chip Ghigna,

      for all your love & inspiration

      for Debra,

      always

      "If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees

      and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable;

      if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply,

      as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor:

      then everything will become easier for you, more coherent and

      somehow more reconciling, not in your conscious mind

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