Pneumatic Antiphonal (New Directions Poetry Pamphlets) - Softcover

Legris, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0811220400 ISBN 13: 9780811220408

Publisher: New Directions, 2013

Synopsis

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris ― her first publication in the U.S.

Part of our revived "Poetry Pamphlets" series, Pneumatic Antiphonal is a fun, humming, bio-physiological word-whizzing flight into birdsong penned by young Canadian poet, Sylvia Legris ― her first publication in the U.S.

An excerpt:

The theory of corpuscular flight is the cardinal premise
of red birds carrying song-particles carrying oxygen.
Erythrocytic. Sticky. Five quarts of migration.

About this title

About the Author:

Sylvia Legris was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and now lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Her poems have appeared in the New Yorker, Conjunctions, and Granta, and her third collection of poetry, Nerve Squall, won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0811220400
• ISBN 13: 9780811220408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48