- 96 pages
- English
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Blackbird Song
About this book
Drawing deeply from his Cree ancestors and equally from European and Asian traditions, Randy Lundy offers an exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence, and the land. This is the mind of prayer, a seeing and re-seeing of the immense cyclic beauty of the earth."What meditative power there is in Blackbird Song, what pure acts of attention and remembrance."—Don McKay, author of Strike/Slip"Lundy's poems carry the immediacy and radiance and intelligence of the lived world itself."—Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty"More than poems, these are offerings and songs."—Linda Hogan, author of Dark. Sweet."Read, yes, we must, Randy Lundy's Blackbird Song. It calls to us."—Simon J. Ortiz, author of from Sand Creek"This is the book of poems I've been waiting for."—Lorna Crozier, author of What the Soul Doesn't Want
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“Randy Lundy’s poems bring forward the spirit of his Cree ancestry, and place our species humbly among the creatures of Earth—who are all observed with deep reverence and perceptive care. We should be grateful to him for bringing his wise, wry, visionary, large-hearted meditations into language, and for demonstrating the need for ‘seeing with another kind of eye....
Table of contents
- Advance Praise forBlackbird Song
- January
- For Your Lover on the Eve of Her Thirty-Fifth Birthday
- Brevity
- A Prayer
- Woman Who Taught Her Grandson to Love
- For Kohkum, Reta
- What You Pray
- Listen
- If the World Were Your Home
- Fasting
- The Chair by the Door
- Watching Blackbirds Watching
- The Cactus
- Autumn Elms
- Cypress Hills
- Benediction
- Grace
- Miracles
- Gnosis
- Conjunctions
- Memory as a Record of Loss
- Octave: Asking Forgiveness
- Surrender
- When you burn sage, cedar, and braided sweet-grass,
- Midnight, Early Spring
- Christmas Eve with Snow
- Doxologies
- The Path Becomes Narrow, Slight as a Note from a Carved Wood Flute
- Spring, Low-Pressure System
- An Ecology of Being and Non-Being
- Insomnia
- November of Your Fiftieth Year
- What the Body Remembers
- Under Northern Saskatchewan Pines
- Bearing Stories
- Hollow Man
- Black Bear
- Wear Your Skin Lightly
- Sleep
- Where Language Fails
- In the Great Sand Hills
- Son
- Solitude
- Shooting Star
- Dream
- Winter-Hard
- Birthday Poem
- Woman Hanging
- Religion
- Under Cloud Belly
- Bearing
- Renunciations: February
- Geese
- Beatitudo
- Nightfall
- Another Season
- Acknowledgements