The Hideous Hidden The Hideous Hidden

The Hideous Hidden

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Publisher Description

From the winner of the Griffin Prize, a richly lyrical collection of poems exploring the body’s minutiae

In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy.

Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and drawing from Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Manuscripts, the dermatologist Robert Willan’s On Cutaneous Diseases (1808), and Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil, Legris infuses each poem with unique rhythms that roll off the tongue. The Hideous Hidden boldly celebrates anatomy’s wonders: “Renounce the vestibule of non-vital vitals. / Confess the gallbladder, / the glandular wallflowers, / the objectionable oblong spleen.”

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2016
September 27
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
96
Pages
PUBLISHER
New Directions
SELLER
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
SIZE
760.4
KB
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