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Slow Earth Companion: Rooted Wayfinding in Fragmentary Times is a print anthology of essays, reflections, poetry, and artwork by many practitioners and relevant thinkers, longtime For The Wild guests and collaborators.

Original artwork by Krista Dragomer is integrated throughout the book.

The anthology embraces an unconventional, textural, and at times strangely feral sensibility, weaving visual and literary elements in unexpected ways. We believe this approach will captivate readers’ attention, inviting deep engagement while offering a singular aesthetic experience that stands apart from traditional ecological or cultural publications. Its form and voice position it as a distinctive, memorable offering within the contemporary publishing landscape.

Contributors include Tyson Yunkaporta, Bayo Akomolafe, brontë velez, Patricia Kaishian, Jacqueline Suskin, adrienne maree brown, Antonia Estela Perez, and Jarod K. Anderson, among others. The book is designed as a companion volume, meant to be returned to over time, exploring themes of relationship, land, kinship, belonging, and ecological intimacy. It reflects the slow media and long-form editorial approach that has defined For The Wild since its founding.

Throughout these pages, touches of visual mischief, such as spiraling text, wavering lines, and amorphous shapes, invite a different rhythm of reading and an opening into unexpected lines of thought. These elements guide attention like a path winding through the woods. The pages unfold as a kind of living landscape, filled with rascally tendrils and snags to catch the eye and draw readers into closer proximity with an other-than-human lifeforce.

This book is a connection. Live it.
This book is a love song. Sing it.
This book is an offering. Breathe it.
This book is a seed. Plant it. 

This strange and unruly anthology invites you into a cyclical world alive with sporific beings, curious elements, ritual remembering, and fragments of wisdom. It is offered as an altar or companion, a book to carry into the forest, to muddy, dog-ear, and return to again and again.

Within the pages, you'll meet the voices of Bayo Akomolafe, adrienne maree brown, Tyson Yunkaporta, Sylvia V. Linsteadt, Pinar Sinopoulos-Lloyd, brontë velez, Lyla June, Jarod K. Anderson, Jacqueline Suskin, Dori Midnight, and many more luminaries, each tracing lines of living reciprocity between humans, creatures, elements, and Earth.

Slow Earth Companion gathers these voices and visions, shaped over a decade of deep listening and relational conversation, and sets them loose in prose, prayer, poetry, and practice, alongside stirring and sensorial drawings by Krista Dragomer that hum and buzz with elemental entanglement and a wily more-than-human presence to nudge you along the way.

Join us. Let us venture, shift, falter, heal, and traverse together.

With love,

For The Wild

300 pages, 20.3 x 20.3 cm, softcover
Published by Set Margins
ISBN: 9789083682037