The Canyon

<p>Through poems and photos <em>The Canyon</em> meditates on Eaton Canyon a unique ecosystem nestled adjacent Pasadena and Altadena California.</p><p></p><p>In January 2025 the Eaton Fire devastated the canyon along with parts of Altadena and Pasadena. <em>The Canyon</em> reflects on the resilience of this environment recalling how its wildlife plants and terrain rebounded after the 1993 Kinneloa Fire. Shaped by fire and now increasingly by human-driven climate change Eaton Canyon is part of a larger story-one that climate scientists place within the evolving Earth System.</p><p></p><p>A celebration of Eaton Canyon's beauty and endurance <em>The Canyon</em> invites readers on a journey through an ever-changing landscape.</p><p></p><p>This is a real <em>collection</em> of poems. Oventile's limber prosody reinvents the long sentence as stanza each poem a little logical and ecological structure all by itself. Each poem scatters out from under the whole of which they compose a part like seeds. What Oventile bears witness to is witness as such. - Timothy Morton Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and author of more than twenty books including<em> Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence </em>and<em> Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology</em></p>