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The house you were born in / Tanya Standish McIntyre.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.4.M42865 H68 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McIntyre, Tanya Standish, author.
- Series:
- Hugh MacLennan poetry series
- The Hugh MacLennan poetry series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grandparent and child--Poetry.
- Grandparent and child.
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Québec (Province)--Rural conditions--Poetry.
- Québec (Province).
- Genre:
- poetry.
- Autobiographical poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 112 pages ; 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "A keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a child With vivid imagery and endless compassion for subjects, Tanya Standish McIntyre's words breathe life. Her richly lyrical phrases capture both the fear and the beauty of growing up in a rural working-class community, anchored by the magical bond between a young girl and her grandfather. Way's Mills, Quebec, is the setting for these poems, although as with Mark Twain's Mississippi, place becomes a place in the heart in this elegy for lost ancestral farms. Standish McIntyre gives voice to the unspoken, shining a light into the dark corners of our collective memory to reveal an indelible past that gleams with clarity, empathy, and humanity. Taking seed in the dilapidated barns and warm sunlit rooms of Standish McIntyre's personal history, these poems weave a filigree of well-worn remembrances and time-honoured treaties of the self, half forgotten yet ever lingering. Lucid, sharp, and crisp as spring water, this collection holds a sweeping narrative power that will stay with you long after the last line."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Ebony Jewelwing
- The House
- View West
- Wedding Pictures
- One Body
- Afternoons
- Black Raspberries
- Les Fruits
- Vernacular
- Subject Matter
- Sugaring
- Red Tractor
- Hedgerow
- The Copse
- The Placeholders
- Silver-Plate
- Down by the Culvert
- Elm and Vine
- Bear River
- The Buick
- Fireside Folk Songs
- Simple Hazards
- Electric Light Storm
- Nightly Prayer
- The Spice Rack
- Vernal
- The Fair
- Horses
- Iron Lung
- Story Girl
- The Pond
- The White Rock
- Something
- The Closet
- Ghost Stories
- The Three Sisters
- Three Brothers
- Susan
- Mildred
- Oak Stove
- Dishes
- Other Grandmother
- Father Was a Miner
- One for Fred
- Juniper
- Soundtrack
- Eglantine
- The Maples
- Before and After the Cows
- Floodlands
- Sacrifice
- If There Is a Heaven
- Lord of the Elements
- Garden
- Dark Tide
- Woman of the Fern
- Confessions of a Farmer
- Doorbell
- Requiem
- The Hawk
- Cabin
- Weathervane
- Wintergreen.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- Other Format:
- Online version: McIntyre, Tanya. House you were born in.
- ISBN:
- 9780228014645
- 0228014646
- OCLC:
- 1309133069
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