The House You Were Born In
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Erschienen am 14. Dezember 2022
121 Seiten
978-0-2280-1578-9 (ISBN)
Beschreibung
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 her 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, physical 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.
With vivid imagery and endless compassion for her 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, physical 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.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
"Withgorgeous imagery and endless compassion for her subjects, Tanya Standish
McIntyre captures both the fear and the beauty of growing up in a rural
working-class community." Carolyn Rowell, TILT Writer's Cooperative "Barns and sheds, old chesterfields, pond ice, damselflies, graveyards and ghosts - rarely
have these words been so evocative, so glorious. From Quebec's Eastern
Townships comes an arresting new voice." Shelley Pomerance, arts journalist "Lucid, sharp, and crisp as spring water, calling to mind Dillard in an arching
narrative." David Gow, award-winning Canadian playwright "Tanya Standish McIntyre is 'a keeper of things forgotten.' A haunting debut
collection." Louise Abbott, author of The Heart of the Farm "Explorations of family and consciousness carve a sure path through the tangled thickets of the past in The House You Were Born In, allowing Quebec's Eastern Townships to emerge not just as backdrop but as character. Each trenchant, graceful poem illuminates a time and a place, as though a light shone from behind memory." Mark Abley, author of The Tongues of Earth
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Sprache
Englisch
Verlagsort
Montreal, QC
Kanada
Editions-Typ
Digitale Ausgabe
Dateigröße
4,98 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-2280-1578-9 (9780228015789)
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Tanya Standish McIntyre
The House You Were Born In
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12/2022
McGill-Queen's University Press
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Person
Tanya Standish McIntyre is a poet and visual artist living in Stanstead, Quebec.
Inhalt
- Cover
- Copyright
- Contents
- 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
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
