The Hideous Hidden (Paperback)

In 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 On Cutaneous Diseases (1808), and Baudelaire's The Flowers of Evil, Legris infuses each poem with unique rhythms that roll off the tongue. The Hideous Hidden boldly celebrates anatomy's wonders: "Renounce the vestibule of non-vital vitals. / Confess the gallbladder, / the glandular wallflowers, / the objectionable oblong spleen."

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2016
Authors:	Sylvia Legris
Dimensions:	203 x 132 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	96
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-2537-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-8112-2537-2
Barcode:	9780811225373

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