White lily /
White Lily is John Emil Vincent's love note to Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedeviled by white lilies. Under their spell the poet dives into parable, fable, received wisdom, compact discs and ruined utopias like a gleeful truant child. Ever present, the white lily,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Montréal ; Kingston :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2025].
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| Series: | Hugh MacLennan poetry series.
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| Summary: | White Lily is John Emil Vincent's love note to Louise Glück and Laurie Anderson, two artists inspired and bedeviled by white lilies. Under their spell the poet dives into parable, fable, received wisdom, compact discs and ruined utopias like a gleeful truant child. Ever present, the white lily, its meanings, messages and seductive scent. The collection begins with a meditation on Anderson's song "White Lily" and its treatment of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's fourteen-hour film Berlin Alexanderplatz. It goes on to ponder whether, if we take them in earnest, our mistakes come to serve as the surest sign of seriousness. Throughout, Vincent's poems trouble what's exact and exacting, always with the white lily as companion, a promise of rebirth delivered in funeral tones. |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 95 pages ; 19 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780228023777 0228023777 |