Poetry. "Embodies in the poems of Jeanne Larsen's WHY WE MAKE GARDENS are plantings profuse and varied, actual and metaphoric--alive with 'the passions of making / the passion of being / unmade.' Gardens, in her sure hands, are vibrantly real--'dust-purple / asters, the monkshood's last / campanile / orange suns of bittersweet'--and illustrative of our human condition. Each poem is acute, oblique, precise and complex; hers is an art to wonder at, to savor, to praise"--Carol Moldaw.
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Poetry. "Embodies in the poems of Jeanne Larsen's WHY WE MAKE GARDENS are plantings profuse and varied, actual and metaphoric--alive with 'the passions of making / the passion of being / unmade.' Gardens, in her sure hands, are vibrantly real--'dust-purple / asters, the monkshood's last / campanile / orange suns of bittersweet'--and illustrative of our human condition. Each poem is acute, oblique, precise and complex; hers is an art to wonder at, to savor, to praise"--Carol Moldaw.
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