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“sylvia legris”

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  • Sleep Gate

    by Sylvia Legris ...
    In Sleep Gate, Sylvia Legris descends into biological dreaming itself: the sleep beneath sleep, where 'the dream under the dream / is the dream of plants'. Taking up Inger Christensen's summons to 'dream our way inward', and H.D.'s insistence that the dream is 'no poetic phantasy / but a biological reality', these poems dissolve the waking world into the fabric of sleep, drawing the natural and ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD

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  • The Principle of Rapid Peering

    by Sylvia Legris ...
    A lyrical guide through Saskatchewan’s Aspen Parkland by a poet whose work is “fizzing with ecological intellect” (Times Literary Supplement).Self-seeding windis a wind of ever-replenishing breath.—from “The Walk, or The Principle of Rapid Peering”The title of Sylvia Legris’ melopoeic collection The Principle of Rapid Peering comes from a phrase the nineteenth-century ornithologist and field ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Garden Physic

    by Sylvia Legris ...
    A musical celebration of the garden, from chaff to grass, and all of its lowly weeds, herbs, and creaturesSylvia Legris’s Garden Physic is a paean to the pleasures and delights of one of the world’s most cherished pastimes: Gardening!“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 ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • The Hideous Hidden

    by Sylvia Legris ...
    From the winner of the Griffin Prize, a richly lyrical collection of poems exploring the body’s minutiaeIn 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 ... Read more

    $15.39 CAD

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  • A Book of Bees

    by Sue Hubbell ...
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  • Fire Use in Northern Forest Survival

    by Mors Kochanski ...
    Fire Use in Northern Forest SurvivalThe why, when and where in justifying the use of fire.A good campfire holds a special fascintation for some and is therapeutic for others. Its warmth and calming effect may help to dissipate the insanities induced by modern life, something difficult to achieve sitting around a camp stove. Today, the concern for the possible negative ecological impacts of ... Read more

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  • 21 Native Wild Edible Plants

    by Mors Kochanski ...
    21 Native Wild Edible PlantsThe few wild plants listed here are likely the only ones that are about as close as domestic plants can be in digestability. Of the 1800 flowering plants in Alberta, about 800 are mentioned as being used as food. I suspect some wild edible plants may require weeks to really acclimatize to them.Written by Mors Kochanski ... Read more

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    by Mors Kochanski ...
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    by Jessica Roux ...
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  • Because the Cat Purrs

    How We Relate to Other Species and Why it Matters

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