In The Garden of All Things Fair

Alice Miaolian Baskous

Apr 2014 · FriesenPress

About this ebook

This book of collected verse was written as two books and then conjoined into one larger volume: harmoniously, I hope, since most of the poems regardless were composed on the common and well-loved subjects of love, beauty, equality, and nature. There is a better place of loveliness is what I’m propounding, attainable through true sentiment, attentiveness, imagination, and empathy for others; and In The Garden of All Things Fair, though a literary endeavor surely, is also an attempt to spread this more subliminal feeling around as one spreads marmalade on toast at breakfast. A student wrote these poems intending to share her profound happiness in the existence of poetry as well as her zest for detail, description, fineness of opinion, and introspection. The language was meant to be thick and substantial, which the author tells the reader, now, with neither chagrin nor presumptuousness, but as a true friend of quality literature as it has been and shall remain through the ages.

About the author

Alice Miaolian Baskous is a senior student majoring in French language and culture at Hunter College in the busy city of New York. She is supernally busy around town and has a strong religious drive — which she intends to become evident very shortly upon publication of her upcoming book. One of the main themes employed in Miss Baskous’ self-confabulated poetry and prose is the right for women to be sage, safe, and glorious in modern-day society which oftentimes is evil in its portrayal of women as gross sexual objects, since a woman is a woman is a woman, not to be taken lightly! Apropos of poetry, she believes it will never go out of fashion; and it continues to be one of her paramount attainable joys. To everyone, this body of work: this boon, this gift.