Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Part's tintinnabulations-overlapping structures in which notes or images are rung slowly and repeatedly like bells. The goal is freedom from illusion, freedom from memory, from "the same old stories" of Lundy's violent past; and freedom, too, from the unreachable memories of the violence done to his Indigenous ancestors, which, Lundy tells us, seem to haunt his cellular biology. Rooted in exquisitely modulated observations of the natural world, the singular achievement of these poems is mind itself, suspended before interior vision like a bit of crystal twisting in the light. "Dispassionate yet impassioned, stark yet bristling with images, the poems encompass contradiction and expansion." - Arc Poetry Magazine Praise for Randy Lundy: "Here is a poet of whom one can say-quietly, simply, with gratitude-that highest of praises: the real thing." - Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty "Randy Lundy has entered the place where the masters reside..." - Patrick Lane, author of Washita

About the Author
Randy Lundy is a member of the Barren Lands (Cree) First Nation. Born in northern Manitoba, he has lived most of his life in Saskatchewan. He has published three previous books, Under the Night Sun , Gift of the Hawk , and Blackbird Song . An award-winning poet, his work has been widely anthologized.

Reviews
"Dispassionate yet impassioned, stark yet bristling with images, the poems encompass contradiction and expansion." -- Arc Poetry Magazine
"Here is a poet of whom one can say -- quietly, simply, with gratitude -- that highest of praises: the real thing." -- Jane Hirshfield, author of The Beauty
"Randy Lundy has entered the place where the masters reside" -- Patrick Lane, author of Washita
Winner, SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski. 2021 Winner, Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland, 2021 Finalist, High Plains Book Award, 2021 Shortlisted, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoples' Publishing, 2020 Shortlisted, Saskatchewan Book Awards, Book of the Year, 2020


Awards
Winner of SK Arts Poetry Award Honouring Anne Szumigalski 2021 and Regina Public Library Book of the Year Award Honouring Mary Sutherland 2021. Short-listed for Saskatchewan Book Awards, Indigenous Peoplesa Writing 2020 and Saskatchewan Book Awards, Book of the Year 2020 and High Plains Book Award 2021. Long-listed for Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence in Poetry 2021.



Book Information
ISBN 9780889776913
Author Randy Lundy
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint University of Regina Press
Publisher University of Regina Press
Weight(grams) 182g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 9mm * 139mm