Ours: Volume 24 (New California Poetry, Band 24) - Softcover

Swensen, Cole

 
9780520254640: Ours: Volume 24 (New California Poetry, Band 24)
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ISBN 10: 0520254643 ISBN 13: 9780520254640
Verlag: University of California Press, 2008

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These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le nôtre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le nôtre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Cole Swensen is the author of eleven previous books of poetry. She is also a translator and has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. Her poetry has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and she teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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"A remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more effortless. Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and approach to the text clearly place her among the finest post-avant poets we now have."—Ron Silliman, author of The Age of Huts (compleat)

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"A remarkably adept, even facile craftsperson--I know of no poet who makes the most stunning verbal effects on the page look more effortless. Her critical assumptions, literary strategies and approach to the text clearly place her among the finest post-avant poets we now have."--Ron Silliman, author of The Age of Huts (compleat)

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Verlag
University of California Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0520254643
ISBN 13 
9780520254640
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Anzahl der Seiten
101
Herausgeber
Hass Robert, Bedient Calvin, Hillman Brenda, Gander Forrest
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