From the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, a new
collection of philosophical, elegiac, and wry meditations on film,
painting, music, and poetry itself Earthly Delights begins with an
invocation to the muse and ends with the departure of Odysseus from
Ithaca. In between, Troy Jollimore's distinguished new collection
ranges widely, with cinematic and adventurous poems that often
concern artistic creation and its place in the world. A great many
center on films, from Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia to Paul Thomas
Anderson's Boogie Nights. The title poem reflects on Hieronymus
Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights, while another is an elegy
for Gord Downie, the lead singer and lyricist for the cult rock
band The Tragically Hip. Other poems address various forms of
political insanity, from the Kennedy assassination to today's
active shooter drills, and philosophical ideas, from Ralph Waldo
Emerson's musings on beauty to John D. Rockefeller's thoughts on
the relation between roses and capitalist ethics. The book's
longest poem, "American Beauty," returns repeatedly to the film of
that name, but ultimately becomes a meditation on the Western
history of making and looking, and-like many of the book's poems-an
elegy for lost things.
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