Title: Going home /
Authors: Lilburn, Tim, 1950-
Publisher: Anansi ; Distributed in the United States by Publishers Group West,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Ecology Philosophy; Environmental ethics.; Desire History.; Home.; North America Environmental conditions.
Abstract: "One of Canada's most revered poets and essayists, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing. In Going Home, Lilburn addresses how North Americans relate (often uneasily) to our physical landscape: we subjugated the land and as a result have failed to settle fully into this place." "Retrieving an almost lost strand in the Western intellectual tradition - the erotic, contemplative strand - Lilburn traces a history of eros and desire in the hope that this exercise and its awakening can lead us home. The collection finishes with two unforgettable personal essays in which Lilburn writes about the place where his ancestors are buried, the flatlands and coulees of southern Saskatchewan."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Introduction -- Philosophical apokatastasis: on writing and return -- Where desire goes -- How Cassian read -- Knowing as ritual -- The work of desire -- Going home -- Getting into the Cabri Lake area.