Earthly Delights - 9780691218823

Princeton University Press

Earthly DelightsPoems\nAuthor(s): Troy Jollimore\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Princeton University Press, United States\nImprint: Princeton University Press\nISBN-13: 9780691218823, 978-0691218823\nSynopsis\nFrom the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film, painting, music, and poetry itself\n\nEarthly Delights begins with an invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimores distinguished new collection ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many center on films, from Andrei Tarkovskys Nostalghia to Paul Thomas Andersons Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus Boschs The Garden of Earthly Delights, while another is an elegy for Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist for the cult rock band The Tragically Hip. Other poems address various forms of pol.