Elissa Favero presents 'Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian'

Third Place Books welcomes Cornish College of the Arts teacher Elissa Favero for the release of her first book, Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family's immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.

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Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family's immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.

Elissa Favero teaches visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle. Her essays often center visual art and natural and built environments, and her art criticism, book reviews, and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Temporary Art Review, The Rumpus, Terrain.org, Ecotone, and River Teeth Journal’s Beautiful Things series. Elissa is a 2024 graduate of the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA Program. Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian is her first book.

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