Genius Loci

出版者:Penguin USA

作者:Deming, Alison

页数:112

出版时间:2005-5

价格:158.00元

装帧:Pap

isbn号码:9780143035206

From a poet and essayist whose writing about nature has won her comparisons with Gary Snyder and Terry Tempest Williams comes a new collection that offers further evidence of her ability to trace the intersections of the human and nonhuman worlds. The title poem is a lyrical excavation of the city of Prague, where layers of history, culture and nature have accumulated to form "a genius loci"—a guardian spirit. From "Genius Loci" Return to a place where nothing in particular can be seen

to explain why you return, nothing you can name,

though you can touch the memory of the landscape—

linden trees in a hedgerow, cut wheatfield, ruins of the

longhouse,

rolling meadow of sunflowers blooming, the musk of

their oil,

contained heat.