Description: World Tree is in many respects, David Wojahn's most ambitious collection to date; especially notable is a 25-poem sequence of ekphrastic poems, "Ochre," which is accompanied by a haunting series of drawings and photographs of Neolithic Art and anonymous turn of the last century snapshot. Read a press release about this book Winner, 2012 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize from the Academy of American Poets Co-winner of the 2013 Nicholas Roerich Museum Poets' Prize
Review Quotes: "With infinite jest, with acute pitiless sadness, calm roaring, and immense insight, David Wojahn, in this epic fresco, tells us our story. As in Homer, as in Jim Sheridan's Brothers."-- "Tomaz Salamun"