These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit

A thoughtful new collection of poems, one that deconstructs the deceptively simple question of what it means to be good —a good person, a good citizen, a good teacher, a good poet, a good father.   With These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit , Hayan Charara presents readers with a medley of ambitious analyses, written in characteristically wry verse. He takes philosophers to task, jousts with academics, and scrutinizes hollow gestures of empathy, exposing the dangers of thinking