Going Home: Essays

By Tim Lilburn format: trade paperback publication: September 2008 ISBN: 9780887847851

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Like his contemporaries Robert Bringhurst, Ronald Wright, Dennis Lee, Don McKay, and Jan Zwicky, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing, and how the two fit together philosophically, morally, and ethically. In Going Home, Lilburn addresses how we relate (often uneasily) to our physical landscape in Canada and the United States: we subjugated the land and as a result have forgotten that part of our intellectual past that would allow us to settle fully into this place. Retrieving an almost lost strand in the Western intellectual tradition — the erotic, contemplative strand, from Plato to John Cassian to the Areopagite — Lilburn traces a history of eros and desire in the hope that this exercise and its awakening can lead us home to a full residence in North America. Surprising and enlightening, the new collection finishes with two unforgettable personal essays, where the poet Tim Lilburn writes about his effort to enact desire in the place where his ancestors are buried, the flatlands and coulees of southern Saskatchewan. Masterful and timely, Going Home is a wake-up call to the whole of North America to the fact that our “home” is endangered because of the way we live in it.

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