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Memory's daughter / Alice Major.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Major, Alice, 1949- author.
- Series:
- Currents (Edmonton, Alta.)
- CuRRents Memory's daughter
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parent and child--Poetry.
- Parent and child.
- Canadian poetry--21st century.
- Canadian poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (145 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Edmonton, Alberta : The University of Alberta Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This is a daughter's poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love. In Greek myth, the daughters of Memory were the Muses. Alice Major listens carefully to their voices. "...tender, wise, beautifully cadenced work which embraces the reader on every page." - Don Domanski
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Baucis and Philemon
- Eve learns endearments
- Memory's daughter
- And we are here
- Time is how
- Metamorphoses
- The great work
- Glosa: The Weather
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780888647658
- 0888647654
- OCLC:
- 869282827
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