Arborophobia / Nancy Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Nancy, 1959- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Robert Kroetsch series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

88 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edmonton, Alberta : University of Alberta Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the natural world. When a child attempts suicide and western North America burns and the creep of mortality closes in, is spiritual and emotional solace possible or even desirable? Answers abound in measured, texturally intimate, and often surprising ways. The title sequence, named for a word that means "hatred of trees," sassily blurs the boundaries between human beings and Ponderosa pines, reminding us how fragile our conceptual frameworks really are. Another sequence responds to Julian of Norwich's writing and call "to practise the art / of letting things happen." Saints' lives interlace with our quotidian experience, smudging connections between the spiritual and the earthly. Taking a hard look at what we have done to this beautiful planet and to those we love, Arborophobia is a companion for all who grapple with the problem of hope in times of crisis."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I. ORB

The Tribes of Grass

The Milk Chute, an Ode

Spring Shave

Lunolio

Anemone in Cyprus

Saint Lucy

Newborn

II. ARBORDPHDBIA

Ponderosa Pine

I. Gotcha

II. Qualms

III. STAIN

Early Spring Elegy

Mother Julian Imagines One Drop of Christ's Blood as the Scale of a Herring

Being Upright

The Time Being

Saint Veronica

WTF

-The Anthropocene?

The Animals in That Backyard

Before the Flood

Dementia, the Queen

Meat

Pitted

Saint Ursula

IV. JULIAN

A Cloth in the Wind, or Being with Julian of Norwich

V. PATH

Saint Cainnech

Ways and Means

How I Came Back to the Morning

The Way We Are Made Of

Paths Taken.

Notes:

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Holmes, Nancy, 1959- Arborophobia.

ISBN:

9781772126020

1772126020

OCLC:

1260665139