KELLY: Two-hundred-fifty-nine pages (laughter). And she got excited and carried away and ended up doing this sort of compendious encyclopedia of fascinating facts about beech trees that's more like an epic. And it started out as this essay to one beech tree. And she passed away, sadly, in 2016, so this is her posthumous work. Wright, and why is this a pick for summer poetry? It's got photographs, some of which are quite artsy, some of which look like you could just lean out your back kitchen window and snap them. It's this 259-page ode to beech trees by C.D. I'm just - I've been flipping through it. The first one is "Casting Deep Shade." It's a poem. And I'm just going to let you walk us through a few of them. KELLY: So you've picked a few picks for us. And so it's a little way of keeping some daydreaminess with you as we head into this very busy season. It's - you can read a poem in a minute, and then it can linger with you. TAYLOR: Well, one of the great functions of poetry is to sort of stretch time and actually to provide a, like, wonderful escape into daydreams. Why poetry? Why is that good to help me stay in the summer mindset? So I'm thinking hang on to summer, and I'm thinking, I don't know, popsicles and not putting the flip-flops away quite yet. She has brought us some poems from this year that convey summer. Before you fully hand yourself over to fall, know there are ways to hold on to that summer fun, so says our poetry reviewer Tess Taylor.
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