{"title":"Sylvia Legris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSylvia Legris\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a distinctive voice within Arts \u0026amp; Culture, weaving intricate themes through inventive language and poetic precision. Her works, such as \u003cem\u003eThe Hideous Hidden\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Principle of Rapid Peering\u003c\/em\u003e, invite readers to explore the complexities of perception, nature, and the unseen forces that shape experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLegris’s writing challenges conventional forms, blending subtle cultural reflections with a sharp, lyrical sensibility. Readers seeking thoughtful, boundary-pushing literature will find her books rich with layered meaning and artistic depth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-principle-of-rapid-peering-by-sylvia-legris-9781472158864","title":"The Principle of Rapid Peering","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf-seeding wind\u003c\/i\u003e is a wind of ever-replenishing breath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e-from 'The Walk, or \u003ci\u003eThe Principle of Rapid Peering\u003c\/i\u003e'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe title of Sylvia Legris' melopoeic collection \u003ci\u003eThe Principle of Rapid Peering\u003c\/i\u003e 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLegris explores this rich theme of active observation through a spray of poems that together form a kind of almanac or naturalist's notebook in verse. Here is 'where nature converges with words,' as the poet walks through prairie habitats near her home in Saskatchewan, through lawless chronologies and mellifluous strophes of strobili and solstice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMoths appear frequently, as do birds and plants and larvae, all meticulously observed and documented with an oblique sense of the pandemic marking the seasons. Elements of weather, ornithology, entomology, and anatomy feed her condensed, inflective lines, making the heart bloom and the intellect dance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeatures drawings by the poet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47384048107756,"sku":"9781472158864","price":22.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3726163482712.jpg?v=1773399486"},{"product_id":"the-hideous-hidden-by-sylvia-legris-9780811225373","title":"The Hideous Hidden","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy. Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and drawing from Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical Manuscripts, the dermatologist Robert Willan's \u003cem\u003eOn Cutaneous Diseases\u003c\/em\u003e (1808), and Baudelaire's \u003cem\u003eThe Flowers of Evil\u003c\/em\u003e, Legris infuses each poem with unique rhythms that roll off the tongue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Hideous Hidden\u003c\/em\u003e boldly celebrates anatomy's wonders: \"Renounce the vestibule of non-vital vitals. \/ Confess the gallbladder, \/ the glandular wallflowers, \/ the objectionable oblong spleen.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471792357612,"sku":"9780811225373","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780811225373-the-hideous-hidden.jpg?v=1775254580"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/sylvia-legris.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}