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Garden Physic
Häftad, 2021
196 kr
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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 …
Principle of Rapid Peering
E-bok, 2024
45 kr
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Self-seeding wind is a wind of ever-replenishing breath. -from ''The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering'' The title of Sylvia Legris'' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to …
Principle of Rapid Peering
Häftad, 2024
145 kr
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Self-seeding windis a wind of ever-replenishing breath.-from 'The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering'The title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the …
Garden Physic
Häftad, 2022
151 kr
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how to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? No quaint, no dainty, no winsome. This smells good, that smells bad, my hands rank with manure. This at least is pure.What is a plant in language? Something like a 'morose root', 'cream cinquefoil', or 'bohemian and sozzled …
Sleep Gate
Häftad, 2026
166 kr
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In Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where ‘the dream under the dream / is the dream of plants’. Taking up Inger Christensen’s summons to ‘dream our way inward’, and H.D.’s insistence that the dream is ‘no poetic phantasy / but a biological …
Pneumatic Antiphonal
Häftad, 2013
127 kr
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Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris — her first publication in the U.S.An excerpt:The theory of corpuscular flight is the cardinal premiseof red birds …
Poetry Pamphlets 1-4
Av Lydia Davis, Eliot Weinberger m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
388 kr
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The first four collections in our revitalized Poetry Pamphlet series, established to highlight original work from writers around the world as well as forgotten treasures lost in the cracks of literary history.Included are: Two American Scenes: Our Village & A Journey on the Colorado River, by Lydia …
Hideous Hidden
Häftad, 2016
181 kr
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In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy.Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and drawing …
Principle of Rapid Peering
Häftad, 2024
196 kr
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Self-seeding windis a wind of ever-replenishing breath.—from “The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering” The title of Sylvia Legris’ melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe …
Nerve Squall
Häftad, 2001
142 kr
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Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. Legris's fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a …
