Ours

By: Cole Swensen

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Paperback | 8 April 2008 | Edition Number 1

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These poems are about gardens, particularly the seventeenth-century French baroque gardens designed by the father of the form, Andre Le Notre. While the poems focus on such examples as Versailles, which Le Notre 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 notre" means "ours." Whereas all of Le Notre's gardens were designed and built for the aristocracy, today most are public parks. Swensen probes the two senses of "le notre" to discover where they intersect, overlap, or blur.

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"Engaging and delightful." Publishers Weekly "Highly recommended for contemporary poetry collections." -- Karla Huston, Appleton Art Ctr., WI Library Journal "The best landscape architecture book of the year is a book-length poem." -- Norman Weinstein Archnewsnow.com "The unrelenting lens Swensen turns on the [gardens] allows us to glimpse some of the myriad layers that constitute history." -- Mary Jo Bang Harvard Review

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
History
A Garden Is a Start Paradise Leaving the Middle Ages
The Birth of Landscape Architecture
The Garden as Architecture Itself
The Garden as Extension Sir Mine Gardens Belong
Principles
In an Effort to Make the Garden a Standing Proof Certain Principles
Must Be Observed A Garden Occurs in Four Stages
A Garden as a Letter
A Garden as Between
A Garden as a Unit of Measure Anamorphosis Euclid's
Eighth Theorem Because a Garden Must End
Vaux-Le-Vicomte
If a Garden of Numbers
Further Notes on the Collusion of Time and Space Working Conditions Charles Le Brun (1619-1690)
Water Labyrinths and Mazes
Other Gardens
Saint-Germain-en-Laye Chantilly Saint-Cloud Meudon
The Medicis
Catherine (1519-1589)
Marie (1573-1642)
The Luxembourg Gardens
Versailles
Versailles the Unfurled
The Divinity of the Sun King
The Garden as a Map of Louis XIV Le Nocirc;tre's Drawings
And the Birds, Too The Ghost of Much Later
Statuary
Orangeries
"You Are A Happy Man, Le N+Tre"
On Happiness Psychic Botany
The Gardened Heart Tuileries, January 2007 Keeping Track of Distance
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