Finalist, Los Angeles Times Book Award
Publishers Weekly National Poetry Month Pick

Longtime Swensen fans will not be surprised to find a myriad of ideas and directions on a single subject—French gardens, this time—in her 12th collection…This may be the most engaging and delightful of Swensen’s recent projects.—Publishers Weekly

“One could read the triumphal note of “Ours” as a political statement — the triumph of the communal over the private that has been the result of one particular strand of European history…In Swensen’s gorgeous and complex engagement with Le Nôtre, she has managed to make a resonant place for him in American poetry, so that the French gardener to kings and queens is now ‘ours.’”—Donna Stonecipher, Jacket2

“The unrelenting lens Swensen turns on [Le Nôtre’s] parks allows us to glimpse some of the myriad layers that constitute history; this weaving of historical occurrence with the present-day event of walking across a basically unchanging landscape becomes a fresh and fascinating meditation on the great traditional Romantic theme of Time.”—Mary Jo Bang, Harvard Review

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