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Life and Death in a Garden

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep. - Claude Monet The recent release from Doppelhouse Press, Even When Fall is Here is a bilingual, fictionalized, multi-seasonal, communication between now deceased landscape architect Chris Shea, Painter Erick Meyenberg, garden owner Eloisa Haudenschild, and curator and writer Ruth Estevez. In it, Estevez creates an intertextual, fictionalized narrative that brings together Meyenberg’s observations, various email communications, historical accounts of gardening by other writers, video recordings, and logbooks kept by Shea, to create a...