At Lake Scugog: Poems

This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author of Tom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by the New York Times as a snappy, entertaining book. A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut, At Lake Scugog demonstrates why the San Francisco Chronicle has called Troy Jollimore a new and exciting voice in American poetry.

Jollimore is a professional philosopher, and in witty and profound ways his formally playful poems dramatize philosophical subjects--especially the individual's relation to the larger world, and the permeable, constantly shifting border between inner and outer. For instance, the speaker of The Solipsist, suspecting that the entire world lives inside of your skull, wonders why / God would make ear and eye / to face outward, not in. And Tom Thomson--a character who also appeared in Jollimore's first book--finds himself journeying like an astronaut through the far reaches of the space that fills his head, an experience that prompts him to ask that a doorbell be installed on the inside, so that he can warn the world before intruding on't.

Author: Troy Jollimore
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 04/03/2011
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.17w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780691149431

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 02/15/2011 pg. 115
Booklist 04/15/2011 pg. 16
Foreword 04/29/2011

About the Author
Troy Jollimore's first book of poetry, Tom Thomson in Purgatory, won the 2006 National Book Critics Circle Award. His poems have appeared in the New Yorker, McSweeney's, and The Believer, among other publications. He teaches philosophy at California State University, Chico.