At Lake Scugog: Poems

This is an eagerly awaited collection of new poems from the author ofTom Thomson in Purgatory, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was hailed by theNew York Timesas a "snappy, entertaining book." A triumphant follow-up to that acclaimed debut,At Lake Scugogdemonstrates why the San Francisco Chroniclehas 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 faceoutward,
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 theinside," so that he can warn the world before "intruding on’t."