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Green is the Orator.
Title:
Green is the Orator.
Author:
Gridley, Sarah.
ISBN:
9780520946149
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (96 pages)
Series:
New California Poetry ; v.29

New California Poetry
Contents:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- One -- Coefficient -- Salt Marsh, Thick with Behaviors -- Table of Consanguinity (The Cousin Chart) -- Diminution of the Clear Thing -- Half Seas Over -- Jardins sous la pluie -- Sweet Habit of the Blood -- Is He Decently Put Back Together? -- Under the Veil of Wildness -- Coming to the Festival of the God of Boundaries -- Makes an Arrangement -- Return of the Native to the Widespread Hour -- Midlander -- Thicket Play -- Honey Ants -- Recessive -- Sending Owls to Athens -- William James, Henry James -- Arethusa -- Arrowsic -- Eidothea -- Sunrise with Sea Monsters -- Where Hardly Hearth Exists -- Two -- Sonnet on Fire -- The Bad Infinity -- Baroque -- Miscellany -- Baroque -- A General Discrimination of Synonyms -- Baroque -- Antonyms & Intermediaries -- Baroque -- First Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide, Pneumatic Institute, 1799 -- Baroque -- Second Inspirations of the Nitrous Oxide -- Three -- Disheveled Holiness -- Medieval Physics -- A Boredom of Spirit -- Gothic Tropical -- Film in Place of a Legal Document -- Japonisme -- Against the Throne and Monarchy of God -- Acousmatic -- The Orator's Maximal Likelihood -- The Beauty of Where We Have Been Living -- Anatomy of Listening -- Sighting -- If It Be Not Now -- Ovation -- Morse Gives Up Portraiture -- Intrinsic -- Intimations -- Constable of the Sweet Oblong -- Work -- Salon/Saloon -- Strokes -- Building Box (Atlantic) -- Posthumous -- Oratorium -- Summer Reading -- Notes -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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