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Moosewood Sandhills

Moosewood Sandhills

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1999971876
ISBN13: 9781999971878
Publisher: Xylem Books
Published: Nov 1 2019
Pages: 68
Weight: 0.19
Height: 0.14 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.25
Language: English

'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 meditations from one of Canada's finest poets.

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