# Fifty-Eight Faces of California Spring – Forrest Gander

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Podcast: [Emergence Magazine Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/emergence-magazine-podcast-579715)
Published: 2026-06-09T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://emergencemagazine.org/poem/fifty-eight-faces-of-california-spring/
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## Resource

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

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