The Principle of Rapid Peering
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- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
30 July 2024
Summary
Self-seeding wind
is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.
-from ‘The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering’
The title of Sylvia Legris’ melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field biologist Joseph Grinnell used to describe the feeding behaviour of certain birds. Rather than waiting passively for food to approach them, these birds live in a continuous mode of ‘rapid peering’.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781472158864 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1472158865 |
| Author: | Sylvia Legris |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Corsair |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 30 July 2024 |
| Weight: | 100g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 124mm x 20mm |
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Critics Review
As a poet, Legris is a master of the curving tangent, working her way around a central theme while simply inclining, dropping clippings, allowing the reader to follow, suspended, her careful meanderings, often grounded by a hard-working title or subtle allusion * Los Angeles Review of Books *
Sylvia Legris’s Garden Physic is the most refreshing book of the year. There’s nothing around quite like it * The Sunday Times *
Sensuous, brainy and cardiovascular, Garden Physic is a cutting-edge ode to plants, teeming with human knowledge and natural mystery, accompanied by gem-like illustrations by the poet * Guardian *
A dazzling, innovative storehouse of delight – Rebecca Tamás on Garden Physic
About The Author
Sylvia Legris
Sylvia Legris was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her collection Garden Physic was chosen as one of the Best Poetry Books of the Year by The Times and CBC/Radio-Canada. Her other poetry collections include The Hideous Hidden, Pneumatic Antiphonal, and Nerve Squall, winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Pat Lowther Award. She lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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