The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees

Mitchell Nobis

ISBN 10: 1966253095 / ISBN 13: 9781966253099

Published by Match Factory Editions, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees
• Publisher: Match Factory Editions
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1966253095
• ISBN 13: 9781966253099
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 15.24W x 0.71H x 22.86D centimeters 15.24 centimeters width by 0.71 centimeters height by 22.86 centimeters depth
• Weight: 200 grams

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Synopsis

Parents can be expected to know all, but they don't have many answers in a world of constantly moving rights and wrongs. The poems in The Size of the Horizon, or, I Explained Everything to the Trees embrace the wandering uncertainty of the self in a life of so many unknowns and the frustrations of enduring the knowns. These poems address the natural world, gun violence, basketball, youth, mortality, climate crisis, and the parenting anxiety raised by tangling with all of that. Mitchell Nobis is a white adoptive dad to Black sons, and his work often looks at America's racism and various crises with both sorrow and fury. Yet, rhizomatic life maintains wonder amid chaos, and these poems bear witness to the joys alongside the worries.