{"id":3976,"date":"2023-09-01T23:10:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-posy-of-poems-celebrating-the-joys-and-consolations-of-the-garden-the-marginalian\/"},"modified":"2023-09-01T23:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-02T03:10:59","slug":"a-posy-of-poems-celebrating-the-joys-and-consolations-of-the-garden-the-marginalian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parmaks.com\/Resources\/a-posy-of-poems-celebrating-the-joys-and-consolations-of-the-garden-the-marginalian\/","title":{"rendered":"A Posy of Poems Celebrating the Joys and Consolations of the Garden \u2013 The Marginalian"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cGardening is like poetry in that it is gratuitous, and also that it cannot be done on will alone,\u201d the poet and passionate gardener May Sarton wrote as she contemplated the parallels between these two creative practices<\/a> \u2014 parallels that have led centuries of beloved writers to reverence the garden<\/a>. No wonder Emily Dickinson spent her life believing that \u201cto be Flower, is profound Responsibility.\u201d<\/a> No wonder Virginia Woolf had her epiphany about what it means to be an artist<\/a> in the garden.<\/p>\n

The garden as a place of reverence and responsibility, a practice of ample creative and spiritual rewards, comes alive in Leaning toward Light: Poems for Gardens & the Hands that Tend Them<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (public library<\/em><\/a>). Envisioned and edited by poet and gardener Tess Taylor, it is a blooming testament to the etymology of anthology<\/em> \u2014 from the Greek anthos<\/em> (flower) and legein (to gather<\/em>): the gathering of flowers \u2014 rooted in her belief that \u201cthe garden poem is as ancient as literature itself.\u201d <\/p>\n

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