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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 private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le n?tre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le N?tre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le n?tre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.
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
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excellent and elaborate
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
"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.
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