Tim Lilburn

Moosewood Sandhills

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'Moosewood Sandhills' can be thought of as a poetic counterpart to Lilburn's seminal collection of essays, 'Living In The World As If It Were Home'. It documents his retreat to the parched scrublands of Saskatchewan, Canada; a place where 'the dead are believed to meander'. Here he 'planted thin gardens, dug a root cellar, slept in the fields under summer stars - and looked'. The poems, by turns revelatory and ecstatic, revolve around simple acts of attention; of exchanging glances with animals; of seeing their traces in the bare hills. 'Moosewood Sandhills' is akin to a lost sacred text of the desert fathers; a remarkable collection of medit… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-1-9999718-7-8
EAN: 9781999971878
Produktnummer: 32901227
Verlag: Xylem Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Seitenangabe: 68 S.
Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.4 cm 96 g
Abbildungen: Paperback
Gewicht: 96

Über den Autor

Tim Lilburn is a western Canadian poet and essayist. He is the winner of his country's highest literary award, the Governor-General's Award, as well as being the recipient of numerous other regional, national and international literary prizes. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2014. He taught philosophy and writing for many years at the Benedictine St. Peter's College in his home province of Saskatchewan, and now teaches at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.