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A cultural biography of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, and a cry of mourning for a post-9/11 world of perpetual war and environmental violence.
In Green-Wood, the author wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth-century cemetery, where the burial ground becomes a portal through which she can explore her own trauma after September 11, and uncover the historical and national traumas leading up to that event. For the author, Green-Wood becomes not only a place of death, but also survival in the midst of death. Green-Wood bears witness to the ways in which people and things are entangled with one another in vast nets of connection.
In Green-Wood, the author wanders Brooklyn’s famous nineteenth-century cemetery, where the burial ground becomes a portal through which she can explore her own trauma after September 11, and uncover the historical and national traumas leading up to that event. For the author, Green-Wood becomes not only a place of death, but also survival in the midst of death. Green-Wood bears witness to the ways in which people and things are entangled with one another in vast nets of connection.
Price: $17.95
Pages: 168
Publisher: Nightboat Books
Imprint: Nightboat Books
Publication Date:
01 October 2018
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781937658885
Format: Paperback
“A gorgeous, subtle, idiosyncratic gem.” —Dominique Browning, New York Times
Allison Cobb is the author of After We All Died (Nightboat Books, 2016), Green-Wood (Nightboat Books, 2018), Plastic: An Autobiography (Nightboat Books, 2021), and Born2. She was a finalist for the National Poetry Series and Oregon Book Award. She works for the Environmental Defense Fund and lives in Portland, Oregon.