Poems of resistance that rally support for the battle of our generation. Words and images chosen to rattle consciences and unite hearts in the fight to protect Mother Nature.

Gazing up at stars, crossing paths with wildlife, hugging trees, listening to wind and water, taming the darkness, solitude and silence: these experiences are the foundation on which this collection was built. It took the author nearly a decade in the woods—her writing
infused with blood and sap—to understand why she stayed, against all odds.
The title of this poetry collection came to the author as she “dug up rusty, razor-sharp cables and rotting fence posts, vestiges of colonization and attempts to tame the land.” Outraged by so much mindless destruction, she felt a duty to bear witness, to lend her voice to the Forest. If only to give the child growing in her womb a chance to play in it one day.
Her acclaimed triptych (Gimme Shelter, Feral and Basecamp) has built a readership sensitive to the themes explored in this moving collection of militant poetry.

GABRIELLE FILTEAU-CHIBA writes,
translates, illustrates and defends the natural beauty of the untamed forests of North America.