{"product_id":"the-volcanos-high-held-snow-note-isbn-9780771026584","title":"The Volcano's High Held Snow Note:Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a stunning new collection of poetry about the natural world and our place in it.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Volcano’s High Held Snow Note\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection preoccupied with a small mountain called SṈAḴE (Snow Mountain) in the language of the W̱SÁNEĆ people on the Saanich Peninsula and the Gulf Islands. The time is the days of early Covid and the multiplying signs of violent climate alteration in burning northern forests. Elsewhere, an uncanny holy child wishes to swim through matter and find healing substances deep under the earth, Marguerite Porete has some ideas for how to deal with Master Reason in a crisis, and hummingbirds take in half-frozen sugar slush as anagogic liquid. | Praise for \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano's High Held Snow Note\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At once austere and lush, vast in scope and in love with particulate beauty, the voice of \u003ci\u003eThe Volcano's High Held Snow Note\u003c\/i\u003e is extraordinary, and utterly new.\" —Roo Borson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is astonishing, prodigious, terrifying. So bold, so well wrought, as shocking as a sleepwalker with a chainsaw. We are weeping from a lethal wound we cannot treat but for the theurgy, the stunning moral power of these poems that turn the soul around. Tim Lilburn is a living master.\" —Peter O’Leary | TIM LILBURN lives in the Bowker Creek watershed in W̱SÁNEĆ territory on Vancouver Island. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eHarmonia Mundi\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe House of Charlemagne\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Names\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAssiniboia\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Orphic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Kill-site\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMoosewood Sandhills\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e To the River\u003c\/i\u003e. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the European Medal of Poetry and Art (the Homer Medal), and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. His poetry has been translated widely. Lilburn is also the author of three earlier essay collections, \u003ci\u003eLiving In The World As If It Were Home, Going Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place\u003c\/i\u003e, and editor of two other influential books on poetics. A new essay collection, \u003ci\u003eNuminous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change\u003c\/i\u003e, appeared from the University of Alberta Press in 2023. He has taught at the University of Victoria, the University of Saskatchewan, and Middlebury College, and worked with the dance company New Dance Horizons as a writer and performer, collaborating with directors Edward Poitras and Robin Poitras. He has been the poetry editor for \u003ci\u003eGrain\u003c\/i\u003e and was one of the founders of Jackpine Press.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48759523836133,"sku":"NP9780771026584","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771026584.jpg?v=1775598881","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-volcanos-high-held-snow-note-isbn-9780771026584","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}