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Field Notes for the Self

Randy Lundy author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Regina Press

Published:28th Mar '20

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Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Pärt's tintinnabulations—overlapping structures in which notes or images are rung slowly and repeatedly like bells. The goal is freedom from illusion, freedom from memory, from "the same old stories" of Lundy's violent past; and freedom, too, from the unreachable memories of the violence done to his Indigenous ancestors, which, Lundy tells us, seem to haunt his cellular biology. Rooted in exquisitely modulated observations of the natural world, the singular achievement of these poems is mind itself, suspended before interior vision like a bit of crystal twisting in the light. "Dispassionate yet impassioned, stark yet bristling with images, the poems encompass contradiction and expansion." — Arc Poetry Magazine Praise for Randy Lundy: "Here is a poet of whom one can say—quietly, simply, with gratitude—that highest of praises: the real thing." — Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty "Randy Lundy has entered the place where the masters reside…" — Patrick Lane, author of Washita

"Dispassionate yet impassioned, stark yet bristling with images, the poems encompass contradiction and expansion." -- Arc Poetry Magazine
"Here is a poet of whom one can say -- quietly, simply, with gratitude -- that highest of praises: the real thing." -- Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty
"Randy Lundy has entered the place where the masters reside" -- Patrick Lane, author of Washita
Winner, SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski. 2021 Winner, Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland, 2021 Finalist, High Plains Book Award, 2021 Shortlisted, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples' Publishing, 2020 Shortlisted, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2020

  • Winner of SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski 2021
  • Winner of Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland 2021
  • Short-listed for Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoplesâ Writing 2020
  • Short-listed for Saskatchewan Book Awards, Book of the Year 2020
  • Short-listed for High Plains Book Award 2021

ISBN: 9780889776913

Dimensions: 215mm x 9mm x 139mm

Weight: 182g

128 pages