{"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","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-principle-of-rapid-peering-by-sylvia-legris-9781472158864","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}