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Sylvia Legris

Sylvia Legris’ latest poetry collection is The Hideous Hidden (New Directions, 2016). Her other collections include Pneumatic Antiphonal and Nerve Squall, winner of the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize. Garden Physic is forthcoming with New Directions in 2021.

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PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

Four Poems

Sylvia Legris

‘Carboniferous cockroach. / Gregarious cockroach.’

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Best Book of 1891: The Birds of Manitoba

Sylvia Legris

‘During the pandemic, birds (along with many insects and wild plants) have landed in my life and poems again.’

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

Three Poems

Sylvia Legris

‘By the dog the minced oaths, / the god-wounds, the solemnly / declared chronical maladies.’

PoetryPoetry | The Online Edition

Poetry | The Online Edition

Three Poems

Sylvia Legris

‘Narcotic, / unworldly, a toxic doctrine / of undivine retribution.’

PoetryPoetry | Issue 136

Poetry | Issue 136

The Heart Compared to a Seed, c.1508 (after Leonardo da Vinci)

Sylvia Legris

‘noce, the heart—the nut that gestates the tree of veins.’