Field notes for the self / Randy Lundy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lundy, Randy, 1967- author.

Series:

Oskana poetry & poetics.

Oskana poetry & poetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian poetry--21st century.

Canadian poetry.

Poetry, Modern--21st century.

Poetry, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (110 pages).

Place of Publication:

Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2020]

Summary:

"Following his acclaimed Blackbird Song, Randy Lundy's fourth collection of poetry modulates the trauma of remembering with the greater spiritual affirmations offered by the natural world. Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Pärt's tintinnabulations--overlapping structures in which notes or images are rung slowly and repeatedly like bells. The goal is freedom from illusion, freedom from memory, from "the same old stories" of Lundy's violent past; and freedom, too, from the unreachable memories of the violence done to his Indigenous ancestors, which, Lundy tells us, seem to haunt his cellular biology. Rooted in exquisitely modulated observations of the natural world, the singular achievement of these poems is mind itself, suspended before interior vision like a bit of crystal twisting in the light."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

A Minor Apocalypse

Autumn, with Blackbirds

Except

On the Night of My First Breath

Manitowapow Calling

Must all the new answers be the same as the old?

Bushed

Pense, Saskatchewan, 2016

What Memory Cannot Return

Sickle Moon

Ceremony

Dead Man

An Answer to Your Question

Film Poem

Two Requirements for Reaching the Goal: To Begin and To Continue

February: Full-Moon Meditation

Another Poem About the Weather, with No Mention of Keats

Heraclitus, or Herakleitos: Spell it as You Wish, I Dont Give a Damn

A Plastic Shopping Bag

The Definition of Poverty

Winter Ghazal

Orison

Mountains and Rivers Poem

Easter Weekend, with Full Moon

Naming the Moon

Desire: Meditation for the Spring Equinox

Seeking

Sometimes We Are Only A Spring Garden Some Deity Has Left Its Boots In

The Names, or On the Emptiness of Mind

Prairie Metaphysic

This is Metaphysics: Fragments

Arbeit macht frei

Knowing What You Do Not Know

Whiskey: A Kind of Ode

A slight wrinkle on the pond

Three-Toed Woodpecker

Birth-Day

Drive Home

Thinking of Nothing

What Kind of Silence Do You Wish to Make?

Your Mothers Skin Still Carries the Scent of Wood Stove Smoke

End of the Year

Mid-Winter

Spirit of the Season

Book of Medicine

First of December

The Beginning of Understanding

Raven at Field-Edge

Genealogy

Field Notes for the Self

The Woman Who Dreams of Oranges

Woman, with a Broom

A Kind of Ceremony

Meditation at the Approach of Solstice

Samsara

Field Meditation

Attempt to Practise

Truth Is

Spring Thoughts: More or Less Random

Kintsugi

Lines with No Opinion Regarding Indigenous Mythical Realism

NOTES AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780889776975

0889776970

9780889776951

0889776954

OCLC:

1119664982