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Talking Hedge

By Jon Alan Carroll

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He is a giant. He's witnessed thousands of years of human history. He is a Redwood, and we interviewed this stately giant at his home in northern California.

                            When did you first decide to become a tree?
                            TOWERING REDWOOD:
                            How does it feel to be 10,000 years old?
                            TOWERING REDWOOD:
                            Where do you get your ideas?
                            TOWERING REDWOOD:

--Excerpt from Talking With Trees, a collection of extremely unpublished interviews.

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Jon Alan Carroll is one of the leading lights of the controversial New American Romanticism Movement. His first chapbook, Yes, There Will Be A Sunday Morning , drew a mixed response from the critics. Wide-Eyed Innocence called it "heartfelt, sincere, really neat," while Snark Monthly dismissed it as "love poesy of exquisite sappiness."

Carroll's next collection, Feelings, is forthcoming next fall from Love Disease Press.