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To the River

To the River

To the River
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To the River Paperback - 1999

by Lilburn, Tim

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  • Title To the River
  • Author Lilburn, Tim
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition New
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto
  • Publication date 1999-04-03
  • Bookseller's Inventory # DADAX0771053231
  • ISBN 9780771053238 / 0771053231
  • Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.46 x 5.76 x 0.28 in (21.49 x 14.63 x 0.71 cm)
  • Size 5.75x0.22x8.50
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
  • Category Poetry
  • Library of Congress subjects South Saskatchewan River (Alta. and Sask.)
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99205259
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
  • Quantity available 6

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From the publisher

To the River is a beautifully crafted gathering of poems. Turning and returning to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, it is a compelling meditation conducted in the presence of a particular landscape. With great metaphorical muscle, the poems move towards the inhabitants of that riverscape, which remains rich with a sense of the strangeness inside the familiarity of willow, geese, river ice, coyote, snowberry. It is not just the satisfaction of aesthetic accomplishment which gives the book its compulsive energy, but the persistence of the seeker's desire for what eludes even our strongest acts of language. Contemplative and spare, spiritual and sensual, To the River is a poetry of praise, a love poem to the earth, a prayer, and a journal of interior practice. It is a collection written by a poet moving into the full stretch of his power.

From the jacket flap

"To the River is a beautifully crafted gathering of poems. Turning and returning to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River, it is a compelling meditation conducted in the presence of a particular landscape. With great metaphorical muscle, the poems move towards the inhabitants of that riverscape, which remains rich with a sense of the strangeness inside the familiarity of willow, geese, river ice, coyote, snowberry. It is not just the satisfaction of aesthetic accomplishment which gives the book its compulsive energy, but the persistence of the seeker's desire for what eludes even our strongest acts of language. Contemplative and spare, spiritual and sensual, "To the River is a poetry of praise, a love poem to the earth, a prayer, and a journal of interior practice. It is a collection written by a poet moving into the full stretch of his power.

Media reviews

“Lilburn’s contemplative language has a resonant beauty.”
–Montreal Gazette

“A poet of standing comes into his own.”
–Dennis Lee

Citations

  • Booklist, 02/01/2000, Page 1005

About the author

Tim Lilburn was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published five previous poetry collections, including To the River (1999), winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year, Moosewood Sandhills (1994), winner of the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, and Tourist To Ecstasy (1989), a finalist for the Governor General's Award. His poems have been widely anthologized. He teaches philosophy and literature at St. Peter's College in Muenster, Saskatchewan.

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