"This is Teresa Scollon's third collection of poetry and her first with Alice Greene & Co. In Trees and Other Creatures, she deftly loosens the boundaries between ourselves and those who share our world. Her layered vignettes explore the spirits of the animate and inanimate - chickens, dogs, a trumpeter, trees, a sofa, rocks - and we are given a path of fresh imagery into the emotional complexity of living, even in the midst of chaos: 'It was as if the earth had opened its lungs on the ground before us: a rainforest...'" - from the publisher.