With an introduction by Bill McKibben, thirty authors use a vast range of styles to explore our human relationship to trees, which of course is multi-faceted, messy, beautiful and selfish and symbiotic. In this collection, we meet a boy who ate a tree to gain access to the Guiness Book of World Records, a tree-tethered sniper at a pot farm in California, a man who was killed by a fallen limb in Central Park, and lots of writers, both established and emerging, whose intimate connections to trees (and their losses) have found a collective home in the pulped pages of recycled forest.

Foreword / Josh MacIvor-Andersen --
Introduction / Bill McKibben --
Treeing / John Roscoe --
Trimming trees / Diane Payne --
The spar tree / Brian Doyle --
Prometheus (1964) / M.J. Gette --
The sugaring season / Annie Bellerose --
That winter / Sarah Bates --
Tree eater / Steven Church --
Study with crepe myrtle / Lia Purpura --
Stacked for firewood / Diana Hume George --
Saving trees / Jacqueline Doyle --
Hector in the redwoods / Mathew Gavin Frank --
Temple / Angela Pelster --
Quakies: Populus tremuloides / Amaris Feland Ketcham --
Etiology / Thomas Mira y Lopez --
The decadence of grapefruit / Toti O'Brien --
Fall / Zoë Ruiz --
The priest in the trees / Fred Bahnson --
What goes down / Kayann Short --
Tree rings: a time-line / T. Hugh Crawford --
The line of no trees / Reneé E. D'Aoust --
Pineward / Lori Brack --
The usefulness of trees / Mercedes Webb-Pullman --
What the willow said as it fell / Andrea Scarpino --
Tree of heaven / Matthew Grewe --
A tree of a crab-apple variety ; My birth / Jacklyn Janeksela --
Word-and-wood working / Wendy Call --
Home is a closed sky / Mackenzie Myers --
The scent of a Daphne / Karen K. Hugg --
Ten takes on the palm / Paul Lisicky --
Airing out / Stefan Olson --
Euclid's orchard (for Brendan Pass) / Theresa Kishkan --
Vertebrae to bark / Courtney Amber Kilian