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  title info:
    title: Field notes for the self
  name:
    name part: Lundy, Randy
    name part: 1967-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: snc
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 110 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Following his acclaimed Blackbird Song, Randy Lundy's fourth collection of poetry modulates the trauma of remembering with the greater spiritual affirmations offered by the natural world. Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations, including 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.
  note: Randy Lundy.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Canadian poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  subject:
    topic: Poetry, Modern
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PR9199.3.L864 F54 2020
  classification: 811.54
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oskana poetry & poetics
  identifier: 9780889776913
  identifier: 0889776911
  identifier: 9780889776951
  identifier: 2020438101
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 190805
    record change date: 20211018102213.0
    record identifier: in00004395695
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng