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."

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