Download or read book The Present State of the Garden written by Heather Sellers and published by . This book was released on 2021-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for Poetry In The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker works through layers of loss: the dissolution of a marriage and a world on the brink of ecological collapse. She attempts to patch together some kind of new Eden in these aftermaths and to make a home and family from the remnants?memories from girlhood, a stray aunt and a niece, and what?s left of her small, once lush garden after the punishing storms of summer. The Present State of the Garden is a clear-eyed, open-hearted poetic memoir.