Green-Wood
Publication Date: 2018
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.
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Praise for Green-Wood
Allison Cobb’s haunted explorations through Green-Wood inspired a gorgeous, subtle, idiosyncratic gem.
—Dominique Browning, author of Slow Love
A masterly and remarkable cultural biography of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery.
—Brian Teare, author of Doomstead Days
Green-Wood is an instantly compelling and fluid read, driven by a thoroughly researched historical sensibility and a fierce passion for environmental defense.
—Anselm Berrigan, author of Something for Everybody
Green-Wood is a must read for anybody who likes to wander through cemeteries. The book teaches and delights just like the Horatian platitude says Poetry should do. Though it is not confined to Poetry, it is also Essay and the juiciest tidbits from History and Botany. I feel like Emerson having his revelation under the pine trees, that everything is connected, and it is. We knew it already but it’s still revelatory as Allison Cobb gives us Emerson's eye to see ‘a navy in an acorn.’ Karl Marx says that to be radical is to go to the root of the matter, and that is what Allison Cobb has done in her book.
—Julian Brolaski, author of Of Mongrelitude