{"product_id":"garden-physic-sylvia-legris-9780811229906","title":"Garden Physic","description":"Sylvia Legris's \u003cem\u003eGarden Physic\u003c\/em\u003e is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the world's most cherished pastimes: Gardening!\u003cbr\u003e \"At the center of the garden the heart,\" she writes, \"Red as any rose. Pulsing \/ balloon vine. Love in a puff.\" As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legris's poems map the garden as body and the body as garden--her words at home in the phytological and anatomical--like birds in a nest. From an imagined love-letter exchange on plants between garden designer Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to a painting by Agnes Martin to the medicinal discourse of the first-century Greek pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, \u003cem\u003eGarden Physic\u003c\/em\u003e engages with the anaphrodisiacs of language with a compressed vitality reminiscent of Louis Zukofsky's \"80 Flowers.\" In muskeg and yard, her study of nature bursts forth with rainworm, whorl of horsetail, and fern radiation--spring beauty in the lines, a healing potion in verse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sylvia Legris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811229904\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811229906\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/21\/2022","brand":"Sylvia Legris","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44049698095359,"sku":"9780811229906","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9c25fa23-514a-474e-87e0-6a70089e8e33.jpg?v=1685002974","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/garden-physic-sylvia-legris-9780811229906","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}