{"product_id":"florilegium-9781848617025","title":"Florilegium","description":"\u003cp\u003eMolly Vogel's first collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eFlorilegium\u003c\/em\u003e is an exploration of life written in 'the language of flowers'. The poems regard flowers as both symbols and means of communication; in a broader sense, they deem the natural world essential to our understanding of words, ourselves, and the divine. Like Coleridge's rook in 'This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison', the flower is a sign that connects those disparately placed, both geographically and emotionally. \u003cem\u003eFlorilegium\u003c\/em\u003e finds its blooms in Scotland as well as California; in free verse as well as stricter form; in books as well as dreams; on streets and at shrines as well as in wild gardens. Fittingly, the poems are varied and vividly colourful, inviting and surprising. They precede a long-form glossary, a meditation growing out from the poems' words but also from the entire history of literature and thought around flowers. Though intertwined with the poems, the glossary is a collection in itself: in equal parts literary criticism, philosophical treatise, and prose poem.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogel, Molly:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Molly Vogel is a poet from Thousand Oaks, California. She moved to Glasgow in 2011 to pursue a doctorate. A selection of her poems featured in New Poetries VI (Carcanet, 2015). She was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan Poetry Prize in 2014 and received a New Writers Award from the Scottish Book Trust in 2016.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50376672805138,"sku":"9781848617025","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_940de6d3-d34f-4311-bf28-839abbdbe7f4.jpg?v=1728603351","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/florilegium-9781848617025","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}