{"product_id":"birds-beasts-and-flowers","title":"Oiseaux, bêtes et fleurs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat changes when a fig, a mosquito and a snake stop being scenery and demand your attention?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Birds, Beasts and Flowers, D. H. Lawrence meets the natural world as something alive, strange and full of mystery. This collection of poems moves from pomegranates, peaches and figs to trees, flowers, reptiles, birds and beasts. He talks to a fig, scolds a mosquito and bows before a snake: each encounter challenges the habit of putting human life first.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLawrence writes in loose, speaking free verse, with lines that stretch or shorten as his thoughts move. A baby tortoise makes its first small crawl; a turkey cock struts with ancient pride. Fruit becomes bodily and strange, while trees and flowers hold a quieter life. Throughout, the poems ask what we lose when we treat nature as a backdrop.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eInside this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFruit with hidden depths\u003c\/strong\u003e – Meet pomegranates, peaches and figs in poems that make familiar fruit feel strange.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eA snake commands respect\u003c\/strong\u003e – Follow an encounter that brings a human speaker face to face with another creature’s mystery.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThe tortoise’s small beginning\u003c\/strong\u003e – Watch a baby tortoise crawl into poems attentive to its separate, unfamiliar life.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTrees and flowers grow quieter\u003c\/strong\u003e – Enter a gentler mood without losing the strong feeling that runs through these poems.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eThought becomes living speech\u003c\/strong\u003e – Feel free verse follow a thinking voice, without neat rhyme or regular lines.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for readers who enjoy poems that sound like thinking aloud, and nature writing with a sharp, odd edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOpen the first page now, and let Lawrence draw your eye toward the life you might overlook.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Library of Alexandria Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59534569668956,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9442\/8764\/files\/04570_en_ebook-front_c04.jpg?v=1792174902","url":"https:\/\/libraryofalexandria.com\/fr\/products\/oiseaux-betes-et-fleurs","provider":"The Library of Alexandria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}