Garden physic / Sylvia Legris ; with maps, illustrations, and photographs by the author.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Legris, Sylvia, author, illustrator.

Series:

New Directions paperbook ; 1516.

New Directions paperbook ; NDP1516

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

106 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021.

Summary:

""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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Yard Wants What the Yard Wants

Where Horsetail Intersects String

Floral Correspondences

De Materia Medica.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780811229906

0811229904

OCLC:

1233266367