Mortal Arguments

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Filigrane

Année de parution:
2003

ISBN-13: 9781771310680

Mortal Arguments is Sue Sinclair’s second poetry collection. In it, she continues her extraordinary phenomenological investigation of lived experience, addressing with increasing urgency issues of profound philosophical and political importance such as consumerism, privilege, and our ability to respond to the suffering of others. Her voice combines great metaphorical brilliance with the depth one expects of a much older writer. Her poems will remind readers by turns of Rilke and Heine: urgent, sorrowing, ecstatic. This is an important book by one of Canada’s finest young poets.

Roses

Not because it is sufficient, but because

we subsist on light, and what doesn’t

cry out to be noticed? There’s something here

you might recognize, but you’re not sure; still, you’re willing

to risk it: the loss of everything, seen and unseen,

the before and the after. It doesn’t depend on you

but you move toward it. Because as long as there’s a moment

here or there, why not arrange a few roses

in a jar, give thought to their listlessness, how they gather

the room about them yet think nothing of it, how each

thorn persists, how they have made a purpose

of holding still? Then you remember

the necessary and sufficient. This isn’t it,

but you don’t know where else to begin.