With Numinous Seditions, celebrated poet and essayist Tim Lilburn investigates inner dispositions that might help us bear the new sorrows of the climate crisis. The book draws from the West’s almost forgotten contemplative tradition in its Platonic, Islamic, Christian, and Zoharic forms. It also explores ideas from modern philosophers Jan Zwicky, Gillian Rose, Dorothy Day, and Simone Weil, and from contemporary poets Don Domanski, Philip Kevin Paul, Anne Szumigalski, and Roberto Harrison. Lilburn suggests that listening, noticing, reading, and stretching our imaginations are all part of an interior stance that can assist with the difficult tasks of forming deep relationships with the land, with Indigenous peoples, and with pedagogy itself. Numinous Seditions is for scholars and readers interested in poetry, environmental philosophy, and in the possibility of a contemplative politics.
Authors
- Pages
- 208
- Published in
- Edmonton, CA
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Contents 6
- Preface 8
- 1 New Sadness 12
- 2 Interiority and Climate Change 22
- 3 Cotemplative Practices, Comtemplative Pedagogies 36
- 4 Hoping for Something to Appear 60
- 5 Poetry's Practice of Philosophy 66
- 6 Reading William Chittick Reading Ibn 'Arabi 76
- 7 Happy Incompetencies, the Self's Other Routes 88
- 8 Poverty and the Doom of Acedia 102
- 9 Ontological Loneliness and the Balm of Metaphor 114
- 10 Two Readings on Snow, Two Readings on Sorrow 124
- 11 In the Time of Extreme Heat, In the Time of the Discovery of Unmarked Graves at the Sites of Residential Schools 142
- 12 Numinous Seditions 158
- Dream Coda 170
- Glossary 172
- Reading 174
- Index 180
- About the Author 190
