IRRESISTIBLE - Burnett, Lynne
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The poems in this book have transitions in common - from death and dying, whether accidental or planned, to milestones such as a son leaving home etc. There's love palpably felt after death and beyond it, little epiphanies from near-disasters, the whole subject of death from many different angles - the news that breaks us, how our lives are enlarged by telling moments. The title poem "Irresistible" and "Tandem Hang-Gliding Incident" embody our human failings and the unnecessary accidental deaths we suffer as a result. But also, physically, death is inevitable and therefore irresistible - we…mehr

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The poems in this book have transitions in common - from death and dying, whether accidental or planned, to milestones such as a son leaving home etc. There's love palpably felt after death and beyond it, little epiphanies from near-disasters, the whole subject of death from many different angles - the news that breaks us, how our lives are enlarged by telling moments. The title poem "Irresistible" and "Tandem Hang-Gliding Incident" embody our human failings and the unnecessary accidental deaths we suffer as a result. But also, physically, death is inevitable and therefore irresistible - we can't resist it. It will happen sooner or later: our first breath inspires our last, so to speak, and our last - for those believing there's more beyond our bodies - inspires our first on a different plane. The awareness of limited time allows an appreciation for the preciousness of life in all its forms (animal journeys as well as human ones) while offering buoys of humour, irony and joy throughout these pages.
Autorenporträt
Lynne Burnett was born in England, raised in Ontario, and has lived for many years in West Vancouver, BC with her husband. Her poems have appeared in Canadian and American journals such as Blue Heron Review, Calyx, CV2, Geist, IthacaLit, Malahat Review, New Millennium Writings, Pandora's Collective, Pedestal, Tamsen and Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art. She is the 2016 winner of the Lauren K. Alleyne Difficult Fruit Poetry Prize. She happily goes off the grid each summer to cruise northern BC's coastal waterways and islands.