Constructed in two parts, this collection embraces secretly related worlds: the poetics of natural history and artistic discoveries of self-taught folk artists.

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 03/15/1996
ISBN: 9780819522269
Pages: 95
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.55w x 0.34d

Review Citations: Library Journal 03/01/1996 pg. 81
Publishers Weekly 02/26/1996
Booklist 03/15/1996