Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy

Tim Lilburn, ed.

Thinking and Singing: Poetry and the Practice of Philosophy is Lilburn’s most recent project, a col­lab­o­ra­tion with Jan Zwicky, Don McKay, Dennis Lee and Robert Bringhurst. Together they think and sing about eros, dream­ing, nam­ing, rhythm and rumi­na­tion, to name just a few sub­jects. The writ­ing is not very acces­si­ble, but then some would argue that both poetry and phi­los­o­phy are by nature not very acces­si­ble, and so the writ­ing is appro­pri­ate. Either way, it’s a gor­geous dis­play of the atten­tion and devo­tion that five indi­vid­u­als can offer a fine art, and an essen­tial con­tri­bu­tion to the study of poetics.