This is the first book for Mark Steinmetz, a photographer with a very unique, somber vision. Steinmetz has been teaches in the summer photography program of the Art Department of the University of Georgia, at Cortona, in Tuscany. TUSCAN TREES offers a portfolio of some of his most luminous findings. Each black-and-white tree photograph is accompanied by the writing of Janet Lembke, whose "writing tacks between three points: the stuff of her late-twentieth-century life; the tangle of creature and plant in every dimension of tide and river flow; and the haunting, connecting wires of mythos that still knot us to the ancient beginnings"