Exculpatory Lilies: Poems by Musgrave, Susan
Exculpatory Lilies: Poems by Musgrave, Susan

Exculpatory Lilies: Poems

A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and...
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Author: Susan Musgrave
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Exculpatory Lilies: Poems by Musgrave, Susan

Exculpatory Lilies: Poems

$229.78
Exculpatory Lilies: Poems by Musgrave, Susan

Exculpatory Lilies: Poems

$229.78
Author: Susan Musgrave
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A Globe and Mail Top 100 Book

From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage, addiction, death, and heart-wrenching grief.

If grief is the willingness to be claimed by a story bigger than ourselves, Susan Musgrave writes, "in that / tender wavering, I let grief in."

"Writing about grief or tragedy is tricky. Hard to meet it at a heart-level without being effusive; hard to meet it at a brain-level without being cold. Hard not to make it about ourselves. Hard to meet it at a visceral level because it can take us out at the knees," wrote author Carrie Mac, responding to the death of Musgrave's partner, Stephen Reid, in 2018. Following this traumatic loss, in September 2021 their daughter, Sophie, died of an accidental overdose after a twenty-year struggle with addiction.

But to say this is a collection solely about grief would be to miss the whole nature of Musgrave's voice and sensibility. Wit is one counterpoint; the natural world is another. The poems share a landscape whose creatures, minutely observed, wild and tame--the winged ones most of all--dance attendance on the helplessness of our brief and mystifying human lives. Throughout Exculpatory Lilies, Musgrave's alertness to even the most desolate places makes her personal sorrows astonishingly potent; and her scrutiny of language, and emotions, makes shot silk out of sackcloth and ashes.

Author: Susan Musgrave
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 09/06/2022
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d
ISBN: 9780771099007
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