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The Hideous Hidden

The Hideous Hidden

Legris, Sylvia

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ISBN10: 0811225372
ISBN13: 9780811225373
Publisher: New Directions
Published: Sep 27 2016
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.30 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy.

Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and drawing from Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical Manuscripts, the dermatologist Robert Willan's On Cutaneous Diseases (1808), and Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, Legris infuses each poem with unique rhythms that roll off the tongue. The Hideous Hidden boldly celebrates anatomy's wonders: Renounce the vestibule of non-vital vitals. / Confess the gallbladder, / the glandular wallflowers, / the objectionable oblong spleen.

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