Nerve Squall - Softcover

Legris, Sylvia

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1552451607 ISBN 13: 9781552451601

Publisher: Coach House Books, 2001

Synopsis

Nerve Squall is a field guide like no other, a surreal handbook to a landscape at the crossroads of meteorology and neurology, where the electrical storms without and the electrical impulses within converge.

Legris’s fascination with weather, ghosts and brain disorders is the starting point for a collection of poetry that ensures you’ll never look at nature the same way again. You’ll find snow golems and ghost cats, and a sky filled with fish swimming the winds of a storm. And you’ll find a haunted terrain where the natural world becomes an allegory for our most intimate fears.

Despite their dark and often cinematic approach, these poems are also tinged with a sly, apocalyptic wit that can’t help but laugh as the sky falls.

Nerve Squall is a vital exploration of the symbiosis of storm, nerve and language, a sure-handed guide to the end of the world.

About this title

About the Author:

Nerve Squall is Sylvia Legris's third book-length poetry collection; her previous books are iridium seeds and circuitry of veins. She has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, in 2001 she won the Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize for 'Fishblood Sky'; and she received an Honorable Mention in the poetry category of the 2004 National Magazine Awards. She is currently a resident in the state of fidgety fretfulness.

About this edition

• Publisher: Coach House Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1552451607
• ISBN 13: 9781552451601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128