The Poetry of Roses
by Carolyn Parker
Parker combines photographs of the over 150 varieties of roses from her garden with tributes to the flower by Sappho, Basho, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, Walt Whitman, e. e. cummings, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, and others.
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ISBN |
Binding/Format Hardcover |
Publisher Harry N Abrams Inc |
Date 1995 |
Price $1.00 |
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Publisher NotesIn The Poetry of Roses, Carolyn Parker celebrates the rose, pairing her exquisite full-color photographs or blooms from her own garden with the evocative poems she has chosen to accompany them. Here are roses in the garden, roses in formal arrangements, roses heaped in baskets, along with tributes to the flower from such diverse writers as Sappho, the haiku master Basho, Emily Dickenson, John Milton, Walt Whitman, e.e. cummings, T.S. Eliot, and Jorge Luis Borges, among others. Review this book! |









