From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.
The Names is personal and familial archaeology, an extemporal dig giving spectres back to their bodies. With its lines sped up and dazzlingly associative, Tim Lilburn’s cocktail of obsessions – confession, ontology, mystical theology, humour and extreme, fleet, apt weirdness – marches through on full display. He pulls in an even broader cast of characters than his previous collections managed: John Ruusbroec and Marguerite Porete brush past aunts, uncles, and unusual creatures steering the boats of language past fog-draped trees. In Lilburn’s latest collection, we are immersed in a realism of remarkable proportions, as though incandescent memory comprised both texture and text, and combined formed the elemental fibres of a perilous present.
- ISBN10 0771048033
- ISBN13 9780771048036
- Publish Date 22 March 2016
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country CA
- Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 80
- Language English
- URL https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780771048036