Marietta Patricia Leis

Engrained: Reflections on Trees in Poetry & Art Marietta Patricia Leis

Engrained: Reflections in Poetry and Art, is a book of 84 pages that present the beauty, activities and ecology of forests as well the reality of their fragility and exploitation. The artwork and poems are by the author, Marietta Patricia Leis, a renown visual artist and poet and admitted tree-hugger. Leis says; The language of trees has to be learned; it is a language of wonder, stillness and reverence. Forests affect the lives of everyone even unknowingly.

-Mary Dezember, Author of Still Howling states:
... With an emphasis on their color, shape and pure existence in both verbal and visual art, Leis creates a gorgeous modern illumined manuscript book of hours for the loving lives that protect us, Trees.