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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792449703321

Autore

Gridley Sarah

Titolo

Green is the Orator / / Sarah Gridley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2010]

©2010

ISBN

1-282-46319-5

9786612463198

0-520-94614-6

0-520-94688-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (105 p.)

Collana

New California Poetry ; ; 29

Disciplina

811/.6

Soggetti

Nature

Nature -- Poetry

American Literature

English

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- One -- Two -- Three -- Notes -- Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

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 is compressed, original, and full of unexpected pleasures. This unusual book, at once austere and full of life, reflects a penetrating mind at work-one that is thinking through and re-presenting romantic and modernist traditions of nature.