Field Notes for the Self

Following his acclaimed Blackbird Song, Randy Lundy’s fourth collection of poetry modulates the trauma of remembering with the greater spiritual affirmations offered by the natural world.

Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark meditations: spiritual exercises in which the poem becomes a forensics of the soul. The poems converse with Patrick Lane, John Thompson, and Charles Wright, but their closest cousins may be Arvo Pärt’s tintinnabulations—overlapping structures in which notes or im...