Ours: Volume 24

by Cole Swensen

Book Overview

These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andr? Le N?tre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le N?tre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520254643
• ISBN13: 9780520254640
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 118 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

excellent and elaborate

"Ours" has already received some great reviews online, which I would recommend. In this piece, she takes the poetic subject of gardens and plays on their rich semantic interrelations with so many other things with great poetic and intellectual effect.