Green Is the Orator: Volume 29

by Sarah Gridley

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520262425
• ISBN13: 9780520262423
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 7.7"