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To the River - Softcover

Lilburn, Tim

 
9780771053238: To the River
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0771053231 ISBN 13: 9780771053238
Verlag: McClelland & Stewart, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

To the River is a beautifully crafted gathering of poems. Turning and returning to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, it is a compelling meditation conducted in the presence of a particular landscape. With great metaphorical muscle, the poems move towards the inhabitants of that riverscape, which remains rich with a sense of the strangeness inside the familiarity of willow, geese, river ice, coyote, snowberry. It is not just the satisfaction of aesthetic accomplishment which gives the book its compulsive energy, but the persistence of the seeker’s desire for what eludes even our strongest acts of language. Contemplative and spare, spiritual and sensual, To the River is a poetry of praise, a love poem to the earth, a prayer, and a journal of interior practice. It is a collection written by a poet moving into the full stretch of his power.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published five previous poetry collections, including To the River (1999), winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, Moosewood Sandhills (1994), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, and Tourist To Ecstasy (1989), a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. His poems have been widely anthologized. He teaches philosophy and literature at St. Peter’s College in Muenster, Saskatchewan.

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"To the River is a beautifully crafted gathering of poems. Turning and returning to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, it is a compelling meditation conducted in the presence of a particular landscape. With great metaphorical muscle, the poems move towards the inhabitants of that riverscape, which remains rich with a sense of the strangeness inside the familiarity of willow, geese, river ice, coyote, snowberry. It is not just the satisfaction of aesthetic accomplishment which gives the book its compulsive energy, but the persistence of the seeker's desire for what eludes even our strongest acts of language. Contemplative and spare, spiritual and sensual, "To the River is a poetry of praise, a love poem to the earth, a prayer, and a journal of interior practice. It is a collection written by a poet moving into the full stretch of his power.

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Verlag
McClelland & Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0771053231
ISBN 13 
9780771053238
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
88
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