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    Mortal Arguments
    Mortal Arguments
    Mortal Arguments
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    Mortal Arguments

    By Sue Sinclair

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    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.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrick Books
    Release dateSep 15, 2003
    ISBN9781771310680
    Mortal Arguments
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    Sue Sinclair

    Sue Sinclair grew up on the ancestral homelands of the Beothuk in Newfoundland and is currently living on Wəlastəkwiyik Territory, where she teaches creative writing at the University of New Brunswick. She is the author of five previous collections of poetry, all nominated for or winners of national or regional awards. Sinclair edits poetry for Brick Books and is also editor of the Fiddlehead.

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