{"product_id":"garden-physic","title":"Garden Physic","description":"Sylvia Legris's \u003cem\u003eGarden Physic\u003c\/em\u003e is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the world's most cherished pastimes: Gardening!\u003cbr\u003e \"At the center of the garden the heart,\" she writes, \"Red as any rose. Pulsing \/ balloon vine. Love in a puff.\" As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legris's poems map the garden as body and the body as garden--her words at home in the phytological and anatomical--like birds in a nest. From an imagined love-letter exchange on plants between garden designer Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson to a painting by Agnes Martin to the medicinal discourse of the first-century Greek pharmacologist Pedanius Dioscorides, \u003cem\u003eGarden Physic\u003c\/em\u003e engages with the anaphrodisiacs of language with a compressed vitality reminiscent of Louis Zukofsky's \"80 Flowers.\" In muskeg and yard, her study of nature bursts forth with rainworm, whorl of horsetail, and fern radiation--spring beauty in the lines, a healing potion in verse.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833685094605,"sku":"9780811229906","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_e2ca3d43-602a-4858-b0f5-c173aafaf02b.jpg?v=1790892802","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/garden-physic","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}