Ours

Author:   Cole Swensen
Publisher:   University of California Press
Volume:   24
ISBN:  

9780520254633


Pages:   118
Publication Date:   08 April 2008
Format:   Hardback
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"These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Noc;tre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Noc;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 noc;tre"" means ""ours."" Whereas all of Le Noc;tre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of ""le noc;tre"" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur."

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Author:   Cole Swensen
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Volume:   24
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.050kg
ISBN:  

9780520254633


ISBN 10:   0520254635
Pages:   118
Publication Date:   08 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction HISTORY A Garden Is a Start Paradise Leaving the Middle Ages The Birth of Landscape Architecture The Garden as Architecture Itself The Garden as Extension Sir Mine Gardens Belong PRINCIPLES In an Effort to Make the Garden a Standing Proof Certain Principles Must Be Observed A Garden Occurs in Four Stages A Garden as a Letter A Garden as Between A Garden as a Unit of Measure Anamorphosis Euclid's Eighth Theorem Because a Garden Must End VAUX-LE-VICOMTE If a Garden of Numbers Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and Space Working Conditions Charles Le Brun (1619-1690) Water Labyrinths and Mazes OTHER GARDENS Saint-Germain-en-Laye Chantilly Saint-Cloud Meudon THE MEDICIS Catherine (1519-1589) Marie (1573-1642) The Luxembourg Gardens VERSAILLES Versailles the Unfurled The Divinity of the Sun King The Garden as a Map of Louis XIV Le Notre's Drawings And the Birds, Too The Ghost of Much Later STATUARY ORANGERIES YOU ARE A HAPPY MAN, LE NOTRE On Happiness Psychic Botany The Gardened Heart Tuileries, January 2007 Keeping Track of Distance

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Engaging and delightful. --Publishers Weekly Highly recommended for contemporary poetry collections. --Library Journal The best landscape architecture book of the year is a book-length poem. --Archnewsnow.com The unrelenting lens Swensen turns on the [gardens] allows us to glimpse some of the myriad layers that constitute history. --Harvard Review


Engaging and delightful. --Publishers Weekly Highly recommended for contemporary poetry collections. --Library Journal The best landscape architecture book of the year is a book-length poem. --Archnewsnow.com


Author Information

Cole Swensen is the author of eleven previous books of poetry. She is also a translator and has won the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. Her poetry has won the Iowa Poetry Prize and the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and she teaches at the Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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