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Green is the orator

By Sarah , Gridley

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0520262417, 978-0-520-26241-6, 9780520946149, 0520946146, 9780520946880, 052094688X, 9781282463196, 1282463195, 978-0-520-26242-3
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
478 kB (489775 bytes)
Series
New California poetry
Pages
90\105
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Nature -- Poetry. POETRY -- American -- General. P

Description

Green is the Orator follows on Sarah Gridley’s brilliant first collection, Weather Eye Open, in addressing the challenge of representing nature through language. Gridley’s deftly original syntax arises from direct experience of the natural world and from encounters with other texts, including the Egyptian “Book of the Dead” and the writings of Charles Darwin, Peter Mark Roget, William Morris, William James, and Henri Bergson. Gridley’s own idiom is compressed, original, and full of unexpected pleasures. This unusual book, at once austere and full of life, reflects a penetrating mind at work—one that is thinking through and re-presenting romantic and modernist traditions of nature.

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