The Gardens Of Japan, And Versailles Comments

I love gardens in general but this close look at two quite divergent styles is brilliant. You hone in on a common which is FORM IS EVERYTHING and then show how differently the abstract principle is applied by gardeners' When I visited Versailles many years ago I felt somewhat alienated by the conspicuous consumption of resources in what is on the surface still aristocratic. But a local park LAKE COMO (my poem CROW SUMMONS is about Como) engaged a Japanese master to design a garden which is just wonderful. I have a poem on it, IN A JAPANESE GARDEN. l