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The Unlit Path Behind the House

Margo Wheaton
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Author : Margo Wheaton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780773598898

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The day’s an old room / stripped of its furniture; there are / never enough beds in winter. / By late afternoon, the shadows / are forming a blue inconsolable hall // as sparrows retreat to makeshift / cots of pine bark and eaves. // Even the parched marsh grass / has stilled, every blade / become an ear. Sensuous, atmospheric, and spare, The Unlit Path Behind the House collects poems that seek light in difficult places. In lines filled with an intense music, Margo Wheaton listens for the lyricism inside the day’s blessings and catastrophes. Wheaton’s poems sing at the intersections where public and private worlds collide: the steady cadence of a boy carrying an unconscious girl in his arms, the afternoon journey of a woman taking books to prisoners, the rhythmic breathing of a homeless man asleep in a parking lot. In these works, fireflies pulse in the dark, lovers clasp and unclasp, and street signs sing like Blake’s angels. Deeply informed by the natural world, Wheaton’s writing is marked by great meditative depth; while passionately engaged, these poems evoke a field of mystery and stillness. Whether exploring themes of isolation, spiritual dispossession, desire, or the sanctity of daily rituals, The Unlit Path Behind the House conveys our longing for home and the different ways we try to find it.

The Unlit Path Behind the House

Margo Wheaton
The Unlit Path Behind the House Book PDF

Author : Margo Wheaton
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780773598904

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The day’s an old room / stripped of its furniture; there are / never enough beds in winter. / By late afternoon, the shadows / are forming a blue inconsolable hall // as sparrows retreat to makeshift / cots of pine bark and eaves. // Even the parched marsh grass / has stilled, every blade / become an ear. Sensuous, atmospheric, and spare, The Unlit Path Behind the House collects poems that seek light in difficult places. In lines filled with an intense music, Margo Wheaton listens for the lyricism inside the day’s blessings and catastrophes. Wheaton’s poems sing at the intersections where public and private worlds collide: the steady cadence of a boy carrying an unconscious girl in his arms, the afternoon journey of a woman taking books to prisoners, the rhythmic breathing of a homeless man asleep in a parking lot. In these works, fireflies pulse in the dark, lovers clasp and unclasp, and street signs sing like Blake’s angels. Deeply informed by the natural world, Wheaton’s writing is marked by great meditative depth; while passionately engaged, these poems evoke a field of mystery and stillness. Whether exploring themes of isolation, spiritual dispossession, desire, or the sanctity of daily rituals, The Unlit Path Behind the House conveys our longing for home and the different ways we try to find it.

The Little Yellow House

Heather MacLeod
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Author : Heather MacLeod
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773540217

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Silent echoes of memories forgotten.

Giving My Body to Science

Rachel Rose
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Author : Rachel Rose
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : 9780773519046

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Opening the Storm Eye You spin the wheels of your red truck and speak of tornados you've known how they drive through homes and create orphans. I see your girlhood divided by unremarkable years and years where you crouched in the bathtub and prayed to the deep and steady anchor of the plumbing that you would be left alive after house and family had been sucked away. Picking out cherries from a roadside stand unaware of the change in weather, of you behind me. As your lips claim my neck the red relents in my fist. Coins scatter in the fruit as the sky rolls over us. The rain comes in sheets like the wings of netted birds throbbing and falling. While I buy the fruit you wait in your red truck playing the engine. I stumble to meet you drunk on the curve of your mouth, a cardinal on fermented autumn berries. With my tongue I would lick the dust from your eyes, I would offer shelter. Rachel Rose is a poet living in Montreal.

What Really Matters

Thomas O'Grady
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Author : Thomas O'Grady
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0773519068

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Thanksgiving Summers we'd give thanks to be city born and bred when, come mid-August, our country cousins trudged two weeks ahead to the stern task of learning, the clean-cut drudgery of school. Of course, in October we'd curse the luck that gave them a fortnight repeal of break-knuckle rules -- though what could be worse than digging potatoes in muck-caked fields? Who, in their right minds, would envy that chore, and pray -- in late November, a thousand miles and many years away -- to restore themselves by the grace of clay-coated hands? Elbow-deep in a sack of unscrubbed spuds, we swear never to wash off that red mud. Home resonates in this collection. Heart longs for the Prince Edward Island birthplace left behind, memory building like early frost on fresh laundry. But there is another sense of home for this poet of the Irish diaspora, deep down in legacies of poetry and family lore, bred-in-the-bone, read in the signs of sea and sky. For O'Grady, the poet is charged with turning and returning to such legacies of place and time -- with celebrating what really matters. Throughout this dynamic collection, powered by an imagination that gains momentum like a bicycle running downhill, and pressured by exquisitely turned phrase and rhyme, O'Grady maintains an exhilarating grip on language and landscape, on the wondrous details of poetry, place, and home.

A House in Memory

David Helwig
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Author : David Helwig
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780228002611

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A House in Memory by David Helwig Pdf

"the language of the waterway / the name / the train's route through bliss / to" When the poet and novelist David Helwig - a recipient of the Matt Cohen Prize for lifetime achievement and a member of the Order of Canada - died in October 2018, he left behind a substantial catalogue of unpublished work. A House in Memory, a selection of Helwig's last poems, was assembled by his daughter, Maggie. It shows an author still at the height of his powers, creating work in complex formal structures, contemplating mortality, memory, and the landscape of his adopted home of Prince Edward Island, and paying tribute to his literary predecessors. The collection also includes unpublished poems from earlier in Helwig's career. Ranging widely through time, space, and literary tradition, A House in Memory features some deeply personal poems. As Maggie Helwig says of her father, "he could not cease to be a poet as long as he had breath in this world.

Wet Apples, White Blood

Naomi Guttman
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Author : Naomi Guttman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780773577169

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Wet Apples, White Blood by Naomi Guttman Pdf

Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis," centers around the experience of a mother whose young child is hospitalized. Galactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the baby's demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.

Young House Love

Sherry Petersik,John Petersik
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Author : Sherry Petersik,John Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781579656768

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This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Unexpecting

Rachel Lewis
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Author : Rachel Lewis
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781493433353

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What to Expect When You're No Longer Expecting When your baby dies, you find yourself in a life you never expected. And even though pregnancy and infant loss are common, they're not common to you. Instead, you feel like a stranger in your own body, surrounded by well-meaning people who often don't know how to support you. What you need during this time is not a book offering easy answers. You need a safe place to help you navigate what comes next, such as: · Coping with a postpartum body without a baby in your arms. · Facing social isolation and grief invalidation. · Wrestling with faith when you feel let down by God. · Dealing with the overwhelming process of making everyday decisions. · Learning to move forward after loss. · Creating a legacy for your child. In Unexpecting, bereaved mom Rachel Lewis is the friend you never knew you'd need, walking you through the unique grief of baby loss. When nothing about life after loss makes sense . . . this book will. "The guide that all parents experiencing pregnancy loss need when leaving the hospital grief-stricken, without a baby in their arms."--LINDSEY M. HENKE, founder of Pregnancy After Loss Support

Black Dog of Fate

Peter Balakian
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Author : Peter Balakian
Publisher : Broadway
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0767902548

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A prize-winning poet explores the Armenian past that haunted his family's American identity--dark secrets marked by the Turkish government's extermination of more than a million Armenians in 1915.

In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods

Matt Bell
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Author : Matt Bell
Publisher : Soho Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616952549

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In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods by Matt Bell Pdf

In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods tells the story of a newly married couple who take up a lonely existence in the title's mythical location. In this blank and barren plot far from the world they've known, they mean to start the family the unnamed husband wants so obsessively. But their every pregnancy fails, and as their grief swells, the husband─a hot-tempered and impatient fisherman and trapper─attempts to prove his dominion in other ways, emptying both the lake and the woods of their many beasts. As the years pass, the wife changes too, her suddenly powerful voice singing some new series of objects into being, including a threatening moon hung above their house, its doomed weight already slowly falling, bending their now-starless sky. In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods is about marriage, parenthood, and the dreams parents have for their children─as well as what happens to a marriage whose success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the grief that marks their absence.

Bitter in the Belly

John Emil Vincent
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Author : John Emil Vincent
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780228010319

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Bitter in the Belly by John Emil Vincent Pdf

The past grabs back / what it lets us handle Bitter in the Belly reckons with suicide’s wreckage. After John Emil Vincent’s best friend descends into depression and hangs himself, fluency and acuity lose their lustre. Vincent sorts through and tries to arrange cosmologies, eloquence, narrative, insight, only to find fatal limitations. He tries to trick tragedy into revealing itself by means of costume, comedy, thought experiment, theatre of the absurd, and Punch and Judy. The poems progress steadily from the erotic and mythic to the lapidary and biblical, relentlessly constructing images, finding any way to bring the world into the light – what there is of light, when the light is on. In his most personal book, Vincent moves from stark innocence through awful events and losses, to something like acceptance without wisdom – Jonah spit back onto the sand with little to report but that he’s home.

Knots

Edward Carson
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Author : Edward Carson
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 9780773547674

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Poems sculpted from the persuasive mind, erratic heart, and enigmatic art of love's most devious puzzles.

Short Histories of Light

Aidan Chafe
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Author : Aidan Chafe
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Canadian poetry
ISBN : 9780773552760

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Short Histories of Light by Aidan Chafe Pdf

Vivid, haunting, and rhythmical, these poems illuminate the struggles of mental illness and uncover the sinister side of religion.

Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete

Eleonore Schönmaier
Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete Book PDF

Author : Eleonore Schönmaier
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780228007777

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Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete by Eleonore Schönmaier Pdf

Thyme clings, high / and away from the grazing and scents / the air. Island reality is interconnected with live-retrieved memories in which a nurse follows a violent patient into the northern Canadian bush, a migrant mother faces her new job as the village butcher, an Ojibway man is forced to walk a dangerous route home alone, teenagers loot the local dump to build their mother's wheelchair, and an electrician watches a woman play a grand piano on a ballfield. A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances between European musical encounters and a northern working-class childhood. By centring her experiential empathy on a history of racism and poverty, she guides us into better ways of being. Intimate reflections are contrasted with geopolitical and environmental concerns as Schönmaier's fierce intelligence focuses on what is most essential in our lives. The arc of this collection offers a rejuvenating meditation on the meaning of loss and love, highlighted by the lyric beauty of the writing.