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Title: |
Arborophobia |
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| By (author): |
Nancy Holmes |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772126020 : 9781772126020 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
230x135mm |
| Pages: |
104 |
| Weight: |
.125 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2022 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 6 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry |
| 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 â hatred of trees,â 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 Norwichâ s writing and call â to practise the art / of letting things happen.â Saintsâ 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. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Orb; The Tribes of Grass; The Milk Chute, an Ode; Spring Shave; Lunolio; Anemone in Cyprus; Saint Lucy; Newborn II Arborophobia; Ponderosa Pine; Gotcha; II. Qualms; III Stain; Early Spring Elegy; Mother Julian Imagines One Drop of Christ's Blood As the Scale of a Herring; Being Upright; The Time Being; Saint Veronica; WTF--The Anthropocene?; The Animals in That Backyard; Before the Flood; Dementia, the Queen; Meat; Pitted; Saint Ursula IV Julian; A Cloth in the Wind, or Being with Julian of Norwich Contents V Path; Saint Cainnech; Ways and Means; How I Came Back to the Morning; The Way We Are Made Of; Paths Taken; Notes; Acknowledgements. |
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"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." -- 49th Shelf, 28 February 2022
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#8 on the Calgary Herald Non-fiction bestsellers list, May 2, 2022
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