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    612-822-4611

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Wanting Only

Wanting Only

McCredden, Lyn

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 1760415189
ISBN13: 9781760415181
Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Published: Mar 8 2018
Pages: 64
Weight: 0.16
Height: 0.13 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English

There are so many words for wanting: longing, yearning, lusting, lacking, craving, desiring, aspiring, dreaming, hungering... To want is to be human, to experience both the agony and the exquisite anticipatory movement towards what is beyond present reality. So, wanting is both spiritual and earthy. It is a relishing of possibilities (yes, fantasy!), but equally, a measuring of the lack at the heart of human life, a restlessness, and sometimes a turbulence: 'Quick, said the bird, / find them, find them, / Round the corner. Through the first gate, / Into our first world, shall we follow...' (T.S. Eliot, 'Burnt Norton'). Wanting Only is a set of poetic meditations on how humans - individuals and collectives - are transformed by what and how they desire.

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