Lurch
ISBN-13: 9780771057854
Author(s): Don McKay
Subjects: DC
Publisher: PENGUIN RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Publisher Imprint: Mcclelland & Stewart
Publication Date: 05-08-2021
Format: Paperback / softback
Availability: In stock
£15.99
About the book
These poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon rises from the ocean and you lurch with astonishment that we live on a rocky sphere whirling in space. Or the bird in your hand - a pipit or a storm petrel - conveys the exquisite frailty of existence. And there's the complex of lurches as we contemplate our complicity in the sixth mass extinction. Throughout Lurch, language dances its ardent incompetence as a translator of 'the profane wonders of the wilderness,' whether manifest as Balsam Fir, Catbirds, the extinct Eskimo Curlew, or the ever-present Cosmic Microwave Background.