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Unbecoming

Unbecoming

Surkan, Neil

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Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry

General Poetry

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ISBN10: 0228008913
ISBN13: 9780228008910
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Nov 15 2021
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.70 Depth: 7.30
Language: English

Subtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz.

Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.

Yet, in the face of such despair, responsibility and optimism bolster one another - exuberance, amazement, and compassion persist despite the worsening of the wounded Earth. Multifaceted and inventive, this collection of poems vaults from intimation to excoriation, where grief, desire, bewilderment, and protest all crackle and meld.

As the world appears, exceeds, and un- / becomes too quickly for certainty, / just enough for love, the poems in Unbecoming face the horizon with wary eyes and refuse to turn away.

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