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Arborophobia

Arborophobia

Holmes, Nancy

Paperback

Series: Robert Kroetsch

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1772126020
ISBN13: 9781772126020
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: May 16 2022
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.80
Language: English
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.

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