Sylvia Legrisās Garden Physic is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the worldās most cherished pastimes: Gardening!
Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā Ā āAt the center of the garden the heart,ā she writes, āRed as any rose. Pulsing / balloon vine. Love in a puff.ā As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legrisās poems map the garden as body and the body as gardenāher words at home in the phytological and anatomicalālike 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 Zukofskyās ā80 Flowers.ā In muskeg and yard, her study of nature bursts forth with rainworm, whorl of horsetail, and fern radiationāspring beauty in the lines, a healing potion in verse.
This book title, Garden Physic, ISBN: 9780811229906, by Sylvia Legris, published by New Directions (November 2, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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