Publisher's Synopsis
"The great French mime artist Marcel Marceau, whom I once witnessed on stage re-enacting the growth of a tree, called mime "the art of silence." Silence is also very much at the heart of how B.J. Wilson brings nature slowly and poignantly to life in Naming the Trees, and reading it is a similarly riveting experience. It is a liminal book, luminously on the line between rural and urban, self and other, secrecy and revelation. Ann Neelon"--.