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Garden Physic

Garden Physic

Legris, Sylvia

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ISBN10: 0811229904
ISBN13: 9780811229906
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Nov 2 2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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.

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