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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- I.
- SOME LIMITS
- THE MINIMUM
- MY FAVOURITE DEATH SENTENCE
- JERICHO BEACH
- RENFREW
- INSIDE HEAVEN
- RESERVOIR
- I
- WITNESS
- GLOAMING IN A MONOFOREST
- RUMINANT
- PIONEER 10
- INFINITIES
- II.
- AUBADE
- POETRY WORKSHOP WITH MEDICAL STUDENTS
- DEATH PERCEPTION
- BLUFF
- LATE STYLE
- BOOMER
- TENT CATERPILLARS
- SPAN
- DEATH BY A THOUSAND
- FORSAKENNESS
- BOTH
- WHITE LAKE
- THE CORN MAZE
- III.
- THE INFINITE REPLIES
- MUSHROOM PICKING
- ARS POETICA
- BEWILDERMENT
- MOLE
- IN CELL
- PATHETIC
- SCRATCHED IN A STALL ON THE SEASONG
- THE PROTEST
- A FAMILY FRIEND PAINTS OUR HOMETOWN
- GOLDEN YEARS
- SILVER LINING
- PARADISE
- BLUFF (II)
- HEAVEN
- FAITH
- ANXIETY OF INFLUENCE
- IV.
- NOCTURNE
- SHORE
- POND LIFE
- STRANGER
- STRAIN
- AT CHOIR
- THE DAYS WITHOUT INJURY COUNT
- MCINTYRE BLUFF
- DESIRE PATH
- OUTPOSTS
- *
- UNBECOMING
- NOTES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
