Jeopardy

Richard Lemm

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Jeopardy

  Author:   Richard Lemm    
  Publisher:  Acorn Press

Richard Lemm’s new poetry collection, Jeopardy, opens with visits to Tasmania and Egypt. He takes readers to the infamous penal colony on the Tasman Peninsula, then imagines an alternate history in which convicts were sent to Prince Edward Island. Lemm explores his pre- and post-Revolution experiences teaching Egyptian students and encountering a great civilization wrestling with cross-currents of modernity and tradition. His poetic gaze then turns to the struggle of a couple living the ordeal of severe anorexia and the quest for healing.

In “The Sacred and the Profane” poems, he conjures myths and journeys —ancient and modern—to illuminate how we choose to live in the present: a Jewish surgeon’s pilgrimage to Assisi; Adam and Eve’s reflections on their fateful Edenic choice; the poet’s grandfather trading farm clothes for an army uniform and war in the Philippines; a resurrected L. M. Montgomery in a gift shop, surrounded by Anne of Green Gables merchandise. In the final section, Lemm evokes, with wit and urgency, our ecological reality and environmental crises: “The future is forever / now, is headlines scrolling / at glacial melt and animated pixel / speed into amnesia. While the Darwins / of tomorrow and their painstaking facts / watch from the crow’s nests, swaying above / our faith in charts, invincible hulls.”

Other poets have written of Lemm’s “passionate engagement with human nature, including his own,” of how he “masterfully blends his narrative poetic style with lyrical sweeps across time and space,” and of his “wit, his spilling love of life and his poetic magnetism.”

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ISBN associated with this title: 9781773660035
Item AC0155
PublisherAcorn Press
PublisherAcorn Press
Published on June 18 2018
Language eng
Pages 112
Format Paperback
Dimensions8(in) x 5(in)
Shipping weight130(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Richard Lemm is an award-winning author and poet. He has been a faculty member at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and is professor of Canadian and English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, the short story collection Shape of Things to Come and edited two anthologies, Snow Softly Falling and Riptides: New Island Fiction, which won the PEI Book Award and was shortlisted for the Best Atlantic Published Book.