Episode
Fifty-Eight Faces of California Spring – Forrest Gander
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- Emergence Magazine Podcast
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- Jun 9, 2026
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- 1136
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Summary
Reciting an excerpt from his poem, “Fifty-Eight Faces of California Spring,” Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and translator Forrest Gander travels through California’s many counties to offer a geologic atlas of this vast region in spring. Speaking the language of rock—alluvium, quartzite, sandstone, jasper—these field notes give a glimpse of the cycles that continually play out amid apparent stillness, the always-present change hidden in the swathe of deep time. Read the full poem. Discover our latest print edition, Volume 6: Seasons . Credit: Ryan Molnar / Connected Archives