\'Moosewood Sandhills\' can be thought of as a poetic counterpart to Lilburn\'s seminal collection of essays, \'Living In The World As If It Were Home\'. \'Moosewood Sandhills\' is akin to a lost sacred text of the desert fathers; a remarkable collection of meditations from one of Canada\'s finest poets..
The poems, by turns revelatory and ecstatic, revolve around simple acts of attention; of exchanging glances with animals; of seeing their traces in the bare hills.
Here he \'planted thin gardens, dug a root cellar, slept in the fields under summer stars - and looked \'.
It documents his retreat to the parched scrublands of Saskatchewan, Canada; a place where \'the dead are believed to meander\'. \'Moosewood Sandhills\' can be thought of as a poetic counterpart to Lilburn\'s seminal collection of essays, \'Living In The World As If It Were Home\'
