Edge Effect: Trails and Portrayals

by Sandra McPherson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819522260
• ISBN13: 9780819522269
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"