Our bi-annual solstice journal, Defending the World Tree aims to connect and inspire our readers to the importance of our relationships to land, and to hold the lingering question that whispers in the shadows of our collective forgetting: what is our relationship to place?
With our first issue, we invited writers to reflect on another question, one that might help form the foundations for our collective remembering: where is our church? We bring forth this inaugural provocation to not exceed our harms beyond the simplicity of this metaphorical paper-cut. For we must all reckon with what has been done in the name of religion, and seek through action not only to refuse our part in such forgettings, derangements and excesses, but to reweave for ourselves lineages of vital place-based spirituality left to us by our ancestors. We invite you, reader, to be unrelenting in your striving for animate integrity and resistance to the malaise of addictive dualities riddling our dominant culture. As you continue to engage with this artifact, know the blood and sap spilled for its becoming and do not shy away from sensing your responsibility for where we go from here.
Writers for this issue include:
Returning
Arnold Schroder
ClayAir
Amanda Lyn
Johnny DeLacy
Kelly
Dare/Darius Carrasquillo
Ocean
Shipping begins the week of December 15th.
5.5w x8.5h inches.
112 pages.
First edition of 400 hand numbered copies.
We thank you the continued support in our new press as we work meticulously to create publications instilled with meaning and our devotion towards Wildness.
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