review of Renée M. Sgroi, In a Tension of Leaves and Binding, Guernica Editions, Toronto, 2024
Connecting grief with nature resonates with me because after my wife Evelyn died in her 40s I went camping in Yosemite throughout the two years after, and nature taught me how to take in and understand my grief. Renée M. Sgroi also pairs nature with grief in her elegant and evocative book of poetry. She finds parallel stories between the lives of people and the lives of plants and animals of wanting, loneliness, loss, and being bound together.
