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Ours: Volume 24

Ours: Volume 24

Swensen, Cole

Paperback

Series: New California Poetry, Book 24

Poetry AnthologiesGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0520254643
ISBN13: 9780520254640
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 8 2008
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Awards: L.A. Times Book Prize
These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase le nôtre means ours. Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of le nôtre to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.

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