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.What is a plant in language Something like a'morose root','cream cinquefoil',or'bohemian and sozzled with nostalgia'In Garden Physic,Sylvia Legris's glinting studies on flora - mariner's root,throatwort,wild rocket,cuckoo point - create an abundant and fluorescent vegetal mesh.Combining the histories of botanical manuscripts and pharmacopeias with imagined letters between garden designers Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson and playful illustrations throughout,Legris creates an idiosyncratic botanical glossolalia for her meanderings through the physical space of the garden.These luscious poems are a testament to the imbricated human relationship to plants; a radical defence of how we can utilize our ancient symbiosis with living greenery in order to live,heal,and nourish.
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Publisher: Granta BooksISBN: 9781783788279Number of pages: 112Weight: 155 gDimensions: 198 x 131 x 7 mm
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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.(Legris) offers the reader a "physic" in its archaic sense,as remedies for ailments... Bookish gardeners will delight in this playful modern-day florilegium'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''Using florid language and poetic verse,Garden Physic revels in the pleasures of nature,weather and colour''Garden Physic is the author's best book in a so-far stellar career'Sensuous,brainy and cardiovascular,Garden Physic is a cutting-edge ode to plants,teeming with human knowledge and natural mysteryA 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 greeneryLegris 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...
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