Nonfiction
Full of lyrical, humorous, and botanical short essays, Sleep, Creep, Leap will leave you inspired to sit a while with your plants, noticing how the smallest events become the largest—and how the garden brings us down to earth so that we can come home to our lives.
Poetry
Benjamin Vogt’s Without Such Absence is a book filled with unanswerable questions, as if plenitude--of world, or body, or love--can be felt only framed by loss. Vogt loves the natural world and makes us love it, too, especially when he gives formal gardens voice. It’s his wit, and terror, and delight that frame these fine poems, finally, that speak the stories behind the old photographs in all our albums.
Hilda Raz, author of All Odd and Splendid
