Poetry. PERIL AS ARCHITECTURAL ENRICHMENT tests landscape as the subject of experience. Propelling awareness vertically and horizontally, it questions how limbs want to move in space, when convivial with treetops, views, and pollen. The poems greet danger—lost narratives/crops, a fall, inundation—and the refuge of a familiar curvature: the turning of long lines becoming the same as building shelter in the wild where a peril can be seen and felt, and to write is to know what's near. Like a designed landscape, Hazel White's poetry delivers a new sense of orientation/a long-sought spatial fluency: "I want to ride in the fur of animals." "I set this book down and wept.... This book is the most beautiful piece of writing I have read in many years"—Bhanu Kapil.

Author City: SAN FRANCISCO, CA USA

Hazel White grew up on farms in the southwest of England. After finishing undergraduate degrees in philosophy and literature at Warwick University, she studied crop agriculture at Bridgwater College Center for Land Based Studies, and then, through University of California, Berkeley, Extension, landscape architecture. She's the author of eleven gardening books published by Sunset Books and Chronicle Books. Her poetry has appeared in DENVER QUARTERLY, Tarpaulin Sky (online), Blink, and Verse. A chapbook of her poems, Richter 14, was published in 2010 by Deconstructed Artichoke Press. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and teenage son.