Sylvia Legris: Garden Physic
Garden Physic
Buch
- New Directions Publishing Corporation, 11/2021
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780811229906
- Bestellnummer: 10420541
- Umfang: 112 Seiten
- Gewicht: 91 g
- Maße: 201 x 130 mm
- Stärke: 13 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 2.11.2021
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
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.