Unbecoming
eBook - ePub

Unbecoming

  1. 136 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Unbecoming

About this book

Subtler, subtler, beat our hearts / down aisles of cluttered glitz.

Unbecoming, Neil Surkan's sophomore collection, clings to hope while the world deteriorates, transforms, and grows less hospitable from moment to moment. Interplaying tenderness with dogged perseverance, these poems tumble through vignettes of degraded landscapes, ebbing spiritual communities, faltering men, and precarious friendships.

Yet, in the face of such despair, responsibility and optimism bolster one another – exuberance, amazement, and compassion persist despite the worsening of the wounded Earth. Multifaceted and inventive, this collection of poems vaults from intimation to excoriation, where grief, desire, bewilderment, and protest all crackle and meld.

As the world "appears, exceeds, and un- / becomes too quickly for certainty, / just enough for love," the poems in Unbecoming face the horizon with wary eyes and refuse to turn away.

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Information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2021
Topic
Literature
eBook ISBN
9780228010258
Subtopic
Canadian Poetry
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. I.
  5. SOME LIMITS
  6. THE MINIMUM
  7. MY FAVOURITE DEATH SENTENCE
  8. JERICHO BEACH
  9. RENFREW
  10. INSIDE HEAVEN
  11. RESERVOIR
  12. I
  13. WITNESS
  14. GLOAMING IN A MONOFOREST
  15. RUMINANT
  16. PIONEER 10
  17. INFINITIES
  18. II.
  19. AUBADE
  20. POETRY WORKSHOP WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS
  21. DEATH PERCEPTION
  22. BLUFF
  23. LATE STYLE
  24. BOOMER
  25. TENT CATERPILLARS
  26. SPAN
  27. DEATH BY A THOUSAND
  28. FORSAKENNESS
  29. BOTH
  30. WHITE LAKE
  31. THE CORN MAZE
  32. III.
  33. THE INFINITE REPLIES
  34. MUSHROOM PICKING
  35. ARS POETICA
  36. BEWILDERMENT
  37. MOLE
  38. IN CELL
  39. PATHETIC
  40. SCRATCHED IN A STALL ON THE SEASONG
  41. THE PROTEST
  42. A FAMILY FRIEND PAINTS OUR HOMETOWN
  43. GOLDEN YEARS
  44. SILVER LINING
  45. PARADISE
  46. BLUFF (II)
  47. HEAVEN
  48. FAITH
  49. ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
  50. IV.
  51. NOCTURNE
  52. SHORE
  53. POND LIFE
  54. STRANGER
  55. STRAIN
  56. AT CHOIR
  57. THE DAYS WITHOUT INJURY COUNT
  58. MCINTYRE BLUFF
  59. DESIRE PATH
  60. OUTPOSTS
  61. *
  62. UNBECOMING
  63. NOTES
  64. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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