Garden Physic (eBook)

Sylvia Legris (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
112 Seiten
New Directions (Verlag)
978-0-8112-2991-3 (ISBN)

Infos

Sylvia Legris's Garden Physic is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the world's most cherished pastimes: Gardening! At the center of the garden the heart, she writes, Red as any rose. Pulsing / balloon vine. Love in a puff. As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legris s poems map the garden as body and the body as garden her words at home in the phytological and anatomical like birds in a nest. From an imagined love-letter exchange on plants between garden designer Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to a painting by Agnes Martin to the medicinal discourse of the first-century Greek pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, Garden Physic engages with the anaphrodisiacs of language with a compressed vitality reminiscent of Louis Zukofsky s 80 Flowers. In muskeg and yard, her study of nature bursts forth with rainworm, whorl of horsetail, and fern radiation spring beauty in the lines, a healing potion in verse.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik
• Schlagworte: canadian poet • Canadian Poetry • canadian poets • flower poems • flower poetry • gardening poems • gardening poetry • garden poems • garden poetry • nature poems
• ISBN-10: 0-8112-2991-2 / 0811229912
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8112-2991-3 / 9780811229913