The Poetry of Place
Profile: Pamela Burton, FASLA, President, Pamela Burton & Company

Interview by Leslie McGuire, managing editor

Images courtesy of Pamela Burton & Company

Pamela Burton, FASLA, uses the grammar of landscape, with its complicated interaction of plants, structures, water and earth forms to write a poem. She gives us a level of contact that, combined with the structured meter, the natural cadences, the rhyme and the metaphor of a place, coalesces all the senses together. You come to your senses with this internal symphony of emotions, forgotten memories and enhanced awareness.

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A poem is meant to convey a vivid and imaginative sense of experience using condensed language chosen for its sound and suggestive power as well as its meaning. Says Burton, ?EUR??,,????'?????<

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The Journey as a Destination

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Process and Philosophy

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Elegant Influences

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Coming to Your Senses

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The Music of Plant Materials

The Allegretto Vivace of exquisite, sustainable, low-water-use plantings enhance the Santa Monica Public Library while educating the people who visit them.

Maori Maiden Flax
Images courtesy of the Santa Monica Public Library

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Aloe brevifolia

Blue Stalk Sticks

Century Plant

Coral Aloe 2

Felt Plant

Yellow Torch Aloe