{"product_id":"the-names-isbn-9780771048036","title":"The Names","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Names\u003c\/i\u003e is personal and familial archaeology, an extemporal dig giving spectres back to their bodies. With its lines sped up and dazzlingly associative, Tim Lilburn’s cocktail of obsessions – confession, ontology, mystical theology, humour and extreme, fleet, apt weirdness – marches through on full display. He pulls in an even broader cast of characters than his previous collections managed: John Ruusbroec and Marguerite Porete brush past aunts, uncles, and unusual creatures steering the boats of language past fog-draped trees. In Lilburn’s latest collection, we are immersed in a realism of remarkable proportions, as though incandescent memory comprised both texture and text, and combined formed the elemental fibres of a perilous present.• \"[Lilburn’s work] is astounding in its use of language. Image layered on image – and the force of that layering – creates, in the reader, a fusion of excitement and alienation that can be transformative.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Antigonish Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• \"For decades, poet Tim Lilburn has sung songs of praise and moans of loss for the natural world, while grappling with the ultimate failure of words to render the divinity of the natural order. . . . [Lilburn has] thrilled readers with the jagged aggression that spikes his ecstatic visions. . . . His turns of phrase can be breathtaking.\" --\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• \"Lilburn stands in awe of, and has come as close as humanly possible to capturing, the magnitude and magnificence of creation.\" --\u003ci\u003eArc Poetry Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• \"Striking and original. . . . [Lilburn captures] the mystical and ecstatic moments when self and world are united.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003eTIM LILBURN is the author of nine previous books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eAssiniboia\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOrphic Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKill-site\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTo the River\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has received the Governor General’s Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. Lilburn is also the author of two essay collections, \u003ci\u003eLiving in the World As If It Were Home\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGoing Home\u003c\/i\u003e, and the editor of two other influential books on poetics. He teaches at the University of Victoria.","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302447468773,"sku":"NP9780771048036","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771048036.jpg?v=1767740628","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-names-isbn-9780771048036","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}