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The Hideous Hidden
The Hideous Hidden | Sylvia Legris
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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.”
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Cody
The Hideous Hidden | Sylvia Legris
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my subway reading for the day
this slightly gruesome collection of medical #poetry also pulls from astrological and musical sources
#currentlyreading
#newdirections

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JoshCook
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There is only one indie bookstore in Las Vegas but Write's Block is a very cool store. picked up The Hideous Hidden, The Sobbing School, & an anatomical t-rex.