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Ours
Cole Swensen
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Description for Ours
Paperback. Features poems about gardens, particularly the 17th century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. Using the imagery of the garden, this title considers topics ranging from human society to the formal structure of poetry. It probes the 2 senses of Le notre to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur. Series: New California Poetry. Num Pages: 118 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 7. Weight in Grams: 199.
These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Notre 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 notre' means "ours". Whereas all of Le ... Read more
These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Notre 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 notre' means "ours". Whereas all of Le ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of California Press
Number of pages
118
Condition
New
Series
New California Poetry
Number of Pages
118
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520254640
SKU
V9780520254640
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About Cole Swensen
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.
Reviews for Ours
"Engaging and delightful." Publishers Weekly "Highly recommended for contemporary poetry collections."
Karla Huston, Appleton Art Ctr., WI Library Journal "The best landscape architecture book of the year is a book-length poem."
Norman Weinstein Archnewsnow.com "The unrelenting lens Swensen turns on the [gardens] allows us to glimpse some of the myriad layers that constitute history."
Mary Jo Bang ... Read more
Karla Huston, Appleton Art Ctr., WI Library Journal "The best landscape architecture book of the year is a book-length poem."
Norman Weinstein Archnewsnow.com "The unrelenting lens Swensen turns on the [gardens] allows us to glimpse some of the myriad layers that constitute history."
Mary Jo Bang ... Read more