Late Migrations, Margaret Renkl

Late Migrations by Margaret Renkl (Milkweed) uses essays and poetry to capture the portrait of a family — her family — and “the cycles of joy and grief that inscribe human lives within the natural world”. It is a book which erases the line between humans and nature, acknowledging the essential and complicated bonds between both.

“I like the idea of mist as much as I enjoy the lovely mist itself. Aren’t transitions always marked by tumult and confusion?”

Thank you to Roxani Krystalli for kindly donating this book to the library!

Margaret Renkl is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, where her essays appear weekly. Her work has also appeared in Guernica, Literary Hub, Proximity, and River Teeth. She was the founding editor of Chapter 16, the daily literary publication of Humanities Tennessee, and is a graduate of Auburn University and the University of South Carolina.