LITERATURE X ECOLOGY SERIES with Forrest Gander

Conversation conducted on: Thursday 7 March 2023

In this online reading and conversation, Forrest Gander talked about his writing to date, such as his recent collection Your Nearness  (Arc, 2022) [US edition;Twice Alive (New Directions, 2021)] and forthcoming collection Mojave Ghost (New Directions, 2024) in relation to ecology and ecological poetics.

Forrest Gander is a writer, translator, and editor of several anthologies of writing from Spain and Mexico. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including Twice Alive; Be With, which won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and was longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award; and Core Samples from the World, a finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Most recently, Gander collaborated with the photographer Jack Shear to create the collection Knot (Copper Canyon, 2022).

His other books include two novels, As A Friend and The Trace; the poetry collections Be With, Eye Against Eye, Torn Awake, Science & Steepleflower; and the essay collection Faithful Existence: Reading, Memory & Transcendence. Gander’s essays have appeared in The Nation, The Boston Review, and the New York Times Book Review. He is the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim, Howard, United States Artists, and Whiting Foundations.

Mojave Ghost by Forrest Gander (Click on the image to discover more).