Blackbird song / Randy Lundy.
A series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780889775572
- ISBN: 0889775575
- Physical Description: 88 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Regina, Saskatchewan : University of Regina Press, [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Constellation after constellation, turning on the spears of trees -- January -- For our lover on the eve of her thirty-fifth birthday -- Brevity -- A prayer -- Woman who taught her grandson to love -- for Kohdum, Reta -- What you pray -- Listen -- If the world were your home -- Fasting -- Okanagan Lake, November -- The chair by the door -- Watching blackbirds watching -- The cactus -- Autumn elms -- Happiness -- Solace -- Cypress Hills -- Benediction -- Grace -- Miracles --- The long walk -- 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 -- Creation story -- November of your fiftieth year -- What the body remembers -- Under the 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 -- Two short meditations -- Nightfall -- Another season. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 811.6 Lund (Text) | 33294002107019 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |