Ours

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These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre 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 …

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Full title :Ours.

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These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre 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 nôtre" means "ours.

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Publication Date:2008.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:CA
Language:eng
Publication Date:2008.

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Keeping Track of Distance.

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Description:1 online resource (114 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780520941564, 052094156X, 1282360523, 9781282360525
oclc:ocn773564900
LC Classification:PS3505.R43
Dewey Decimal:811.54

Cover; 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 Word Game; 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 SpaceWorking 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 Nôtre's Drawings; And the Birds, Too; The Reign of Louis XIV; The Ghost of Much Later; STATUARY; ORANGERIES; "YOU ARE A HAPPY MAN, LE NÔTRE"; On Happiness; Psychic Botany; The Gardened Heart; Tuileries, January 2007.

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Gardens Gardens -- Poetry Gardens, French Gardens, French -- Poetry Jardins -- Poésie Jardins français -- Poésie Le Notre, Andre Poésie Poetry POETRY -- American POETRY -- Anthologies (multiple authors)