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Sylvia Legris

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Sylvia Legris is the author of Nerve Squall (2005), which won the 2006 Griffin Poetry Prize; Pneumatic Antiphonal (2013); The Hideous Hidden (2016); and Garden Physic (New Directions, forthcoming).

Poems by Sylvia Legris
  • Gazetteer of the Backyard (In Which Pedanius Dioscorides Takes Stock)
  • The Garden Body: A Florilegium
  • Root of Scarcity
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