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Garden Physic
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Garden Physic is a radical poetic movement through plant life. With her singular line, she journeys readers through an investigation of how we articulate our ecological surrounds in language through botanical histories. With a structure that emulates the style of classic manuscripts, Legris’s book deploys humour, deep intellect, and a fanatical obsession with the potential of language, punching through the cliches of contemporary nature writing. A brief snapshot: how to write about flowers without the nauseating sentimental phraseology? No quaint, no dainty, no winsome. This smells good, that smells bad, my hands rank with manure. This at least is pure. The whole book is a glorious meditation on the garden and the power of plants: how they can heal us, emotionally and physically, and how we communicate with them.
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A dazzling, innovative storehouse of delight - a poetic adventure that explores the intimacy, attachment and passions that exist between plants and human beings. Legris has forged a collection that digs its fingers into the soil, that is root-linked, green hearted, made of the earth. -- Rebecca Tamás [Legris] offers the reader a "physic" in its archaic sense, as remedies for ailments... Bookish gardeners will delight in this playful modern-day florilegium * Publisher's Weekly * 'In this bright, blazing book of poems, Sylvia Legris throws language into new and revelatory relations ... Garden Physic brings to the ecological poem a language lush enough to be arrested by, to be changed by, to get lost in. I adore it' * Seán Hewitt * 'Using florid language and poetic verse, Garden Physic revels in the pleasures of nature, weather and colour' * CBC * 'Garden Physic is the author's best book in a so-far stellar career' * Winnipeg Free Press * Sensuous, brainy and cardiovascular, Garden Physic is a cutting-edge ode to plants, teeming with human knowledge and natural mystery * Guardian * A complex and emotive journey through the physic garden as it's never been experienced before. A celebration of plants and true human connection to our living greenery * Skinny * Legris presents us with a rich botanical panorama... Garden Physic is an immense panegyric, a testament to the power of environmentally minded poetry that concerns itself with the relationship between humans and the natural world... A reparative yearning moves the poems into a place of restoration, rejuvenation, and new beginnings... * Poetry Book Society Summer Bulletin *
Author Biography
Sylvia Legris, a poet whose 'work crackles with exuberant wackiness' (CBC/Radio-Canada), was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. She is the author of the poetry collections The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and Pat Lowther Award). Legris lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.Related products
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