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The Irrationalist

By Suzanne , Buffam

Book information

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc.;Canarium Books
ISBN
9780887843075, 0887843077
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
288 kB (294821 bytes)
Pages
\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Canadian poetry--21st century;Canadian poetry;Cana

Description

The Irrationalist is the acclaimed follow-up to the award-winning poetry collection, Past Imperfect, from one of Canada's best poets. At once whimsical and heartbreaking, these eccentric lyrics investigate the shifting grounds of knowledge while refusing to take any authority — be it Epictetus, Therese de Lisieux, Nicolaus Copernicus, Ma Yuan, or the fugitive spectre of self, to name only a few of the volume's dramatis personae — too seriously. Here one inhabits a world on the eve of extinction, in which "astronomers predict a 'Big Rip' in the cosmos resulting in a cold, dark, never-ending end," and yet the darkness is continually illuminated by a pyrotechnics of curiosity, candor, and wit.

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