<b>\u00a0\u00bb[McKay’s] exuberantly musical and shrewd poems are ecological in the fullest sense of the word: they seek to elucidate our relationships with our fragile dwelling places both on the earth and in our own skins.\u00a0\u00bb –<i>New York Times Book Review<\/i><\/b><br><br>An extraordinary collection of poems from Griffin Poetry Prize winner Don McKay. <br><br><br>\u00a0<br>Old joke: \u201cWhat\u2019s the difference between a lurch and a dance step?\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>\u201cI didn\u2019t think so. Let\u2019s sit down.\u201d<br>\u00a0<br>These poems are what happens when you stay out on the dance floor instead, dancing the staggers. The full moon rises from the ocean and you lurch with astonishment that we live on a rocky sphere whirling in space. Or the bird in your hand\u2014a pipit or a storm petrel\u2014conveys the exquisite frailty of existence. And there\u2019s the complex of lurches as we contemplate our complicity in the sixth mass extinction.<br>\u00a0<br>Throughout <i>Lurch<\/i>, language dances its ardent incompetence as a translator of \u201cthe profane wonders of the wilderness,\u201d whether manifest as Balsam Fir, Catbirds, the extinct Eskimo Curlew, or the ever-present Cosmic Microwave Background.<br>\u00a0<br>What is the difference between a love song and an elegy?<br>\u00a0<br>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <i>We live between eroding raindrops<\/i><br> <i><\/i><br> <i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 and accelerating clocks. The piano<\/i><br> <i><\/i><br> <i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 lifts its lid to show its wire-and-hammer<\/i><br> <i><\/i><br> <i>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 heart.<\/i><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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