Results for "Legris, Sylvia"

 A lyrical guide through Saskatchewan’s Aspen Parkland by a poet whose work is “fizzing with ecological intellect” (Times Literary Supplement). Self-seeding wind is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.         —from “The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering”  The titl... Read More about The Principle of Rapid Peering

A musical celebration of the garden, from chaff to grass, and all of its lowly weeds, herbs, and creatures 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... Read More about Garden Physic

Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. Legris's fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a co... Read More about Nerve Squall

From the winner of the Griffin Prize, a richly lyrical collection of poems exploring the body’s minutiae 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 ... Read More about The Hideous Hidden

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris — her first publication in the U.S. Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, h... Read More about Pneumatic Antiphonal (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets)

circuitry of veins explores the relationships between women and their bodies, their families and society. Legris captures, like a photographer, the art of poetry, the essence of language, and the emotive powers of words set side by side in ink."...reaches a kind of almost classical perfection."--Pra... Read More about Circuitry of Veins