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- Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
summary
Edge Effect is Sandra McPherson's most original work to date. Constructed in two parts, the collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists. Throughout, waves from one poem mark the shores of others. In natural history, an edge effect occurs where two communities, such as land and sea, overlap, that zone becoming more diversified than each of them. McPherson explores this effect in nature and art, questioning our notions of inside and outside, center and margin. Profound and moving, she recasts the very premises of formal understanding in poetry, accommodating at once the arts of nature and the nature of art.
Table of Contents
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- 1 Portrayals
- Affirmation Against Critics
- pp. 5-6
- Eclipse Facsimile
- pp. 9-10
- The Study of Genius
- pp. 11-12
- Ode to Early Work
- pp. 15-16
- My Personal Hercules
- pp. 17-18
- Spirit Writings
- pp. 19-20
- Outsider: Minnie Evans
- pp. 24-25
- Outsider: Juanita Rogers
- pp. 26-27
- Justin McCarthy, Naive
- pp. 29-31
- Preliminary Designs
- pp. 33-34
- 2 Trails
- In Memory of the Surprised
- pp. 43-45
- Coastscape and Mr. Begley
- pp. 46-49
- Phlox Diffusa
- p. 65
- Genius of Fog at Ecola Creek Mouth
- pp. 75-76
- Edge Effect
- pp. 77-80
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 83-84
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819572509
Related ISBN(s)
9780819522252
MARC Record
OCLC
731690646
Pages
95
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No