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Zusatztext "What makes the book exceptional is the way it embodies a style of language and thought only a philosopher could deploy so effortlessly." ---John Koethe, Philosophers' Magazine Informationen zum Autor Troy Jollimore Klappentext This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a "snappy, entertaining book." A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut, At Lake Scugog demonstrates why the San Francisco Chronicle has called Troy Jollimore "a new and exciting voice in American poetry."Jollimore is a professional philosopher, and in witty and profound ways his formally playful poems dramatize philosophical subjects-especially the individual's relation to the larger world, and the permeable, constantly shifting border between "inner" and "outer." For instance, the speaker of "The Solipsist," suspecting that the entire world "lives inside of your skull," wonders "why / God would make ear and eye / to face outward, not in." And Tom Thomson-a character who also appeared in Jollimore's first book-finds himself journeying like an astronaut through the far reaches of the space that fills his head, an experience that prompts him to ask that a doorbell be installed "on the inside," so that he can warn the world before "intruding on't." Zusammenfassung This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory , which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a "snappy, entertaining book." A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut, At Lake Scugog demonstrates why the S an Francisco Chronicle has called Troy Jollimore "a new and exciting voice in American poetry." Jollimore is a professional philosopher, and in witty and profound ways his formally playful poems dramatize philosophical subjects—especially the individual's relation to the larger world, and the permeable, constantly shifting border between "inner" and "outer." For instance, the speaker of "The Solipsist," suspecting that the entire world "lives inside of your skull," wonders "why / God would make ear and eye / to face outward , not in." And Tom Thomson—a character who also appeared in Jollimore’s first book—finds himself journeying like an astronaut through the far reaches of the space that fills his head, an experience that prompts him to ask that a doorbell be installed "on the inside ," so that he can warn the world before "intruding on’t." Inhaltsverzeichnis I: BURN BAG 1 The Solipsist 3 At Lake Scugog 5 Regret 7 Stain 9 Lobsters 10 Nostalgia 11 In the Lobby of the Chancellor Hotel 14 Meme! I! Self! and Eye 16 Ars Poetica 19 On Location 20 Love Poem 21 The Errand 22 II: TOM THOMSON IN FLIGHT 23 III: IMPERCEPTIBLY 41 IV: THE STARS! THE HIGHWAYS 55 Want 57 Gate 58 Free Rider 59 Two Hearts 62 Advisory 65 Organ Music 66 Workshop Poems 71 Promise 73 To His Lover 74 The Hunter 75 Remembered Summer 77 His Masters Voice 78 Acknowledgments 88 ...
