false 2411995 4 These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, André Le Nôtre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Nôtre created for Louis XIV, they also explore the garden as metaphor. Using the imagery of the garden, Cole Swensen considers everything from human society to the formal structure of poetry. She looks in particular at the concept of public versus private property, asking who actually owns a garden? A gentle irony accompanies the question because in French, the phrase "le nôtre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Nôtre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le nôtre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur. 2419172 8 4 2008 Ours (New California Poetry) total:34|5:15|4:11|3:6|2:2|1:0| 34 141 60 9 2411995 0520254643 9780520254640 27 7 4.15 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2411995.Ours 3 1 false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jun 21 08:25:54 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 03 08:39:06 -0700 2009 2 more...]]> 2301298 0520254635 9780520254633 6 1 4.15 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2301298.Ours 5 0 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 13 11:59:22 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 09:13:19 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2411995 0520254643 9780520254640 27 7 4.15 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2411995.Ours 3 0 false Wed Jan 28 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 22:45:50 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 23:18:13 -0800 2009
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this book rummages through history books, found encyclopedia language, and old
odd accounts of human interaction for a book all about, well, French gardens.
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