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*From the winner of the Griffin Prize, a richly lyrical collection of poems exploring the body’s minutiae * In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy. Starting with the Greek writings of Hippocrates and the Latin language of medicine, and drawing from Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Manuscripts , the dermatologist Robert Willan’s On Cutaneous Diseases (1808), and Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil , Legris infuses each poem with unique rhythms that roll off the tongue. The Hideous Hidden boldly celebrates anatomy’s wonders: “Renounce the vestibule of non-vital vitals. / Confess the gallbladder, / the glandular wallflowers, / the objectionable oblong spleen.” ** Review “"Sylvia Legris’s new collection The Hideous Hidden articulates a fixation with the human body, both its components and its totality, and in so doing contemplates the relationship between a body and how it is enclosed and shaped by its home, its society, and its language. The ways in which the interior and the exterior of the human body inform one anoth

Who reads The Hideous Hidden?

Author

Legris, Sylvia

Publisher

Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780811225373

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities

Rating

3.5 / 5 (4 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14