Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems)

Poetry. "Embodies in the poems of Jeanne Larsen's WHY WE MAKE GARDENS are plantings profuse and varied, actual and metaphoric—alive with 'the passions of making / the passion of being / unmade.' Gardens, in her sure hands, are vibrantly real—'dust-purple / asters, the monkshood's last / campanile / orange suns of bittersweet'—and illustrative of our human condition. Each poem is acute, oblique, precise and complex; hers is an art to wonder at, to savor, to praise"—Carol Moldaw.