Richard Powers Archive
Who Speaks For the Trees?
Poets, novelists, and artists of the Anthropocene are using their art to reveal the ties that bind us to that hazy concept of “nature,” and they often start with its most potent symbol, the tree—the embodiment of extreme strength and extreme vulnerability.
The Story and the Overstory
Works by Richard Powers and Paul Harding use innovative structures to communicate the messages at their heart.