| Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals Contributor(s): McPherson, Sandra (Author) |
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ISBN: 0819522260 ISBN-13: 9780819522269 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $15.15 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to date. Constructed in two parts, the collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Dewey: 811 |
| LCCN: 95-33661 |
| Series: Wesleyan Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.55" W x 8.52" (0.30 lbs) 95 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Constructed in two parts, this collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists. Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to date. Constructed in two parts, the collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists. Throughout, waves from one poem mark the shores of others. In natural history, an edge effect occurs where two communities, such as land and sea, overlap, that zone becoming more diversified than each of them. McPherson explores this effect in nature and art, questioning our notions of inside and outside, center and margin. Profound and moving, she recasts the very premises of formal understanding in poetry, accommodating at once the arts of nature and the nature of art. |