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Forrest Gander recites his poem while exploring the geological landscape of California in spring.

Reciting an excerpt from his poem, “Fifty-Eight Faces of California Spring,” Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and translator Forrest Gander travels through California’s many counties to offer a geologic atlas of this vast region in spring. Speaking the language of rock—alluvium, quartzite, sandstone, jasper—these field notes give a glimpse of the cycles that continually play out amid apparent stillness, the always-present change hidden in the swathe of deep time. Read the full poem. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons . Credit: Ryan Molnar / Connected Archives

People in this episode

Guest: Forrest Gander

Topics covered

• poetry
• California
• geology
• nature
• seasons
• change

Keywords

• poem
• California spring
• geologic atlas
• Pulitzer Prize
• field notes
• deep time

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Emergence Magazine, Connected Archives

Books & works: Fifty-Eight Faces of California Spring

Places: California

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