Book
Exculpatory lilies / Susan Musgrave.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780771099007 (trade paperback)
- Physical Description: 115 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : McClelland & Stewart, [2022]
- Copyright: ©2022
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| Subject: | Canadian poetry. |
| Genre: | Poetry. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lakeshore Branch | 819.154 Musgr | 31681010294296 | NONFICPBK | Available | - |
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"A stunning new collection from a master poet celebrated for her singular voice. From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage, addiction, death, and heart-wrenching grief. By turns fiercely tender and incredibly wry, these poems urge us to confront the difficult aspects of life head-on."-- - Random House, Inc.
2023 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Finalist
2023 Griffin Poetry Prize Finalist
A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book
2022 Walcott Prize Shortlist
From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage, addiction, death, and heart-wrenching grief.
If grief is the willingness to be claimed by a story bigger than ourselves, Susan Musgrave writes, âin that / tender wavering, I let grief in.âÂ
"Writing about grief or tragedy is tricky. Hard to meet it at a heart-level without being effusive; hard to meet it at a brain-level without being cold. Hard not to make it about ourselves. Hard to meet it at a visceral level because it can take us out at the knees," wrote author Carrie Mac, responding to the death of Musgraveâs partner, Stephen Reid, in 2018. Following this traumatic loss, in September 2021 their daughter, Sophie, died of an accidental overdose after a twenty-year struggle with addiction.
But to say this is a collection solely about grief would be to miss the whole nature of Musgraveâs voice and sensibility. Wit is one counterpoint; the natural world is another. The poems share a landscape whose creatures, minutely observed, wild and tameâthe winged ones most of allâdance attendance on the helplessness of our brief and mystifying human lives. Throughout Exculpatory Lilies, Musgraveâs alertness to even the most desolate places makes her personal sorrows astonishingly potent; and her scrutiny of language, and emotions, makes shot silk out of sackcloth and ashes.
