Desire never leaves : the poetry of Tim Lilburn / selected with an introduction by Alison Calder and an afterword by Tim Lilburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lilburn, Tim, 1950-

Contributor:

Calder, Alison, 1969-

Series:

Laurier poetry series.

Laurier poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry.

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (65 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition of his poetry untangles many of the strands running through his works, providing insight into a poetic world that is both spectacular and humbling. The introduction by Alison Calder situates Lilburn’s writing in an alternate tradition of prairie poetry that relies less on the vernacular and more on philosophy and meditation. Examining Lilburn’s antecedents in Christian mysticism and the ascetic tradition, Calder stresses the paradoxical nature of Lilburn’s writing—the expression of loss through plenitude. The divine in the natural world is glimpsed in brief flashes; nevertheless, the poet, driven by love, continues his quest for what glitters in things. Tim Lilburn’s afterword is an evocative meditation grounded in personal history. He speaks of how poetry, a craning quiet, allows one to hear what is alive in the world. He also describes how poetry is resolutely attached to both a historical moment and an individual subjectivity that is inevitably anchored in time. Lilburn’s poetry is both a religious undertaking and a political gesture that speaks to the urgency of situating ourselves where we live.

Contents:

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Foreword

Biographical Note

Introduction

Names Of God for William Clarke, S.J.

Theophany And Argument

Pumpkins

1. Fervourino To A Barn of Milking Doe Goats Early Easter Morning

Call To Worship In A Mass For The Life Of The World

Elohim Mocks His Images For The Life Of The World

I Bow To It

Spirit Of Agriculture, 1986

In The Hills,Watching

Contemplation Is Mourning

How To Be Here?

Restoration

Pitch

There Is No Presence

A Book Of Exhaustion

Kill-Site

There

Afterword

Acknowledgements

Books in the Laurier Poetry Series

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786612501500

9780889205406

088920540X

9781282501508

128250150X

9780889205314

0889205310

9781429429313

1429429313

OCLC:

191934154