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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.

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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.’

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Poetry | Issue 136 padlock

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.’

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