The Hideous Hidden

by Sylvia Legris

In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy.

Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and drawing from Leonardo da Vinci's Anatomical Manuscripts, the dermatologist Robert Willan's On Cutaneous Diseases (1808), and Baudelaire's The Flowers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811225372
• ISBN13: 9780811225373
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 7.9"