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Numinous Seditions
Interiority and Climate Change
By Tim Lilburn
With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s almost forgotten contemplative tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also explores ideas from modern philosophers Jan Zwicky, Gillian Rose, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, and from contemporary poets Don Domanski, Philip Kevin Paul, Anne Szumigalski, and Roberto Harrison. Lilburn suggests that listening, noticing, reading, and stretching our imaginations are all part of an interior stance that can assist with the difficult tasks of forming deep relationships with the land, with Indigenous peoples, and with pedagogy itself. Numinous Seditions is for scholars and readers interested in poetry, environmental philosophy, and in the possibility of a contemplative politics.
Book details
Publication date: November 2023Features: Glossary, index
Keywords: Literary Essays; Contemplative Practices; Ecopoetics; Poetry; Environmental Philosophy; Jan Zwicky; Gillian Rose; Dorothy Day; Simone Weil; Don Domanski; Anne Szumigalski; Philip Kevin Paul; Roberto Harrison; Sapiential; Wisdom; Mysticism; Pedagogy
Subject(s): PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Environment, Environment / Climate Change, Social Sciences, Social Sciences / Religious Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Spirituality and religious experience, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Climate change, Philosophy and Religion, Poetry / Philosophy, Literary Essays; Contemplative Practices; Ecopoetics; Poetry; Environmental Philosophy; Jan Zwicky; Gillian Rose; Dorothy Day; Simone Weil; Don Domanski; Anne Szumigalski; Philip Kevin Paul; Roberto Harrison; Sapiential; Wisdom; Mysticism; Pedagogy
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: November 2023Features: Glossary, index
Keywords: Literary Essays; Contemplative Practices; Ecopoetics; Poetry; Environmental Philosophy; Jan Zwicky; Gillian Rose; Dorothy Day; Simone Weil; Don Domanski; Anne Szumigalski; Philip Kevin Paul; Roberto Harrison; Sapiential; Wisdom; Mysticism; Pedagogy
Subject(s): PHILOSOPHY / Religious, Literary Studies, Philosophy, Environment, Environment / Climate Change, Social Sciences, Social Sciences / Religious Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Nature, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Spirituality and religious experience, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Climate change, Philosophy and Religion, Poetry / Philosophy, Literary Essays; Contemplative Practices; Ecopoetics; Poetry; Environmental Philosophy; Jan Zwicky; Gillian Rose; Dorothy Day; Simone Weil; Don Domanski; Anne Szumigalski; Philip Kevin Paul; Roberto Harrison; Sapiential; Wisdom; Mysticism; Pedagogy
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Tim Lilburn. Tim Lilburn has published twelve books of poetry, including Kill-site, Assiniboia, The Names, and Harmonia Mundi. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award. Lilburn has produced three previous books of essays, each concerned with poetics, eros, philosophy and politics, especially environmentalism: Living in the World as if It Were Home (Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Book of the Year), Going Home, and The Larger Conversation. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2014. He lives in Victoria, BC, on the homelands of the W̱SÁNEĆ, Songhees, and Esquimalt Nations.
"Numinous Seditions proposes to expand the human imagination with a call to renewed vision. It invites the reader into active, thoughtful engagement with arguably the most crucial question of our time: what can I make of myself, in the world we have made for ourselves?" H. L. Hix, University of Wyoming
"Among the book’s ample gifts are its refusal of confected hope and its hosting of a larger conversation. Here Ibn ‘Arabī brushes foreheads with Anne Szumigalski, Andrew Ahenakew’s polar bear shares the sky with the angel of pseudo-Dionysius. In contemplating shards of ancient wisdom, Lilburn seeks the grace needed to grieve the conflagration of the world." Warren Heiti, author of Attending: An Ethical Art
“The lucent essays gathered in Tim Liburn’s new book offer what they adumbrate: a ‘refugium for attentiveness,’ opening lines of earthbound thought, enriching our lexicon, and retrieving forgotten practices in order to cultivate a contemplative, compassionate, and creative modus vivendi in the midst of the unspeakable sorrow of ecological unravelling, climatic disruption, and the continuing legacies of imperialist violence. Amongst them is a meditation on lectio divina that might be taken as a guide for reading these essays themselves, many of them tending towards the fragmentary, punctuated with pauses, and all of them replete with invitations to see, feel, and imagine otherwise.” Kate Rigby, author of Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
New Sadness
Interiority and Climate Change
Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Pedagogies
Hoping for Something to Appear | The Poetry of Don Domanski
Poetry’s Practice of Philosophy | Anne Szumigalski
Reading William Chittick Reading Ibn ‘Arabi
Happy Incompetencies, the Self’s Other Routes
Poverty and the Doom of Acedia
Ontological Loneliness and the Balm of Metaphor
Two Readings on Snow, Two Readings on Sorrow
In the Time of Extreme Heat, In the Time of the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at the Site of Residential Schools
Numinous Seditions
Dream Coda
Glossary
Reading
Index
Tim Lilburn. Tim Lilburn has published twelve books of poetry, including Kill-site, Assiniboia, The Names, and Harmonia Mundi. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award. Lilburn has produced three previous books of essays, each concerned with poetics, eros, philosophy and politics, especially environmentalism: Living in the World as if It Were Home (Saskatchewan Non-Fiction Book of the Year), Going Home, and The Larger Conversation. He was elected to the Royal Society of Canada in 2014. He lives in Victoria, BC, on the homelands of the W̱SÁNEĆ, Songhees, and Esquimalt Nations.
"Numinous Seditions proposes to expand the human imagination with a call to renewed vision. It invites the reader into active, thoughtful engagement with arguably the most crucial question of our time: what can I make of myself, in the world we have made for ourselves?" H. L. Hix, University of Wyoming
"Among the book’s ample gifts are its refusal of confected hope and its hosting of a larger conversation. Here Ibn ‘Arabī brushes foreheads with Anne Szumigalski, Andrew Ahenakew’s polar bear shares the sky with the angel of pseudo-Dionysius. In contemplating shards of ancient wisdom, Lilburn seeks the grace needed to grieve the conflagration of the world." Warren Heiti, author of Attending: An Ethical Art
“The lucent essays gathered in Tim Liburn’s new book offer what they adumbrate: a ‘refugium for attentiveness,’ opening lines of earthbound thought, enriching our lexicon, and retrieving forgotten practices in order to cultivate a contemplative, compassionate, and creative modus vivendi in the midst of the unspeakable sorrow of ecological unravelling, climatic disruption, and the continuing legacies of imperialist violence. Amongst them is a meditation on lectio divina that might be taken as a guide for reading these essays themselves, many of them tending towards the fragmentary, punctuated with pauses, and all of them replete with invitations to see, feel, and imagine otherwise.” Kate Rigby, author of Meditations on Creation in an Era of Extinction
New Sadness
Interiority and Climate Change
Contemplative Practices, Contemplative Pedagogies
Hoping for Something to Appear | The Poetry of Don Domanski
Poetry’s Practice of Philosophy | Anne Szumigalski
Reading William Chittick Reading Ibn ‘Arabi
Happy Incompetencies, the Self’s Other Routes
Poverty and the Doom of Acedia
Ontological Loneliness and the Balm of Metaphor
Two Readings on Snow, Two Readings on Sorrow
In the Time of Extreme Heat, In the Time of the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at the Site of Residential Schools
Numinous Seditions
Dream Coda
Glossary
Reading
Index
