Overview
Self-seeding wind
is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.
Ā Ā Ā Ā āfrom āThe Walk, or The Principle of Rapid PeeringāĀ
The title of Sylvia Legrisā melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behavior of certain birds. Rather than waiting passively for food to approach them, these birds live in a continuous mode of ārapid peering.ā Legris explores this rich theme of active observation through a spray of poems that together form a kind of almanac or naturalistās notebook in verse. Here is āwhere nature converges with words,ā as the poet walks through prairie habitats near her home in Saskatchewan, through lawless chronologies and mellifluous strophes of strobili and solstice. Moths appear frequently, as do birds and plants and larvae, all meticulously observed and documented with an oblique sense of the pandemic marking the seasons. Elements of weather, ornithology, entomology, and anatomy feed her condensed, inflective lines, making the heart bloom and the intellect dance.
This book title, The Principle of Rapid Peering, ISBN: 9780811237642, by Sylvia Legris, published by New Directions (April 2, 2024) 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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