Ours / / Cole Swensen
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| Autore: |
Swensen Cole <1955->
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| Titolo: |
Ours / / Cole Swensen
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2008 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (114 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 811/.54 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gardens |
| Gardens, French | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- HISTORY -- PRINCIPLES -- VAUX-LE-VICOMTE -- OTHER GARDENS -- THE MEDICIS -- VERSAILLES -- STATUARY -- ORANGERIES -- "YOU ARE A HAPPY MAN, LE NÔTRE" |
| Sommario/riassunto: | These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre 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 private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le nôtre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le nôtre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Ours |
| ISBN: | 1-282-36052-3 |
| 9786612360527 | |
| 0-520-94156-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910815268403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
New California Poetry