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Nerve Squall
Sylvia Legris
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Description for Nerve Squall
Paperback. A handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. It features a collection of poems by the author who is fascinated with weather, ghosts and brain disorders. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. Legris's fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a collection of poetry that ensures you'll never look at nature the same way again. You'll find snow golems and ghost cats, and a sky filled with fish swimming the winds of a storm. And you'll find a haunted terrain where the natural world becomes an allegory for our most intimate fears. ... Read more
Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge. Legris's fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a collection of poetry that ensures you'll never look at nature the same way again. You'll find snow golems and ghost cats, and a sky filled with fish swimming the winds of a storm. And you'll find a haunted terrain where the natural world becomes an allegory for our most intimate fears. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552451601
SKU
V9781552451601
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99-15
About Sylvia Legris
Nerve Squall is Sylvia Legris's third book-length poetry collection; her previous books are iridium seeds and circuitry of veins. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in 2001 she won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize for 'Fishblood Sky'; and she received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of the 2004 National Magazine Awards. She is currently ... Read more
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