Before We Had Words - The Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
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Words across a Ouija Board: Memory is the mother of the Muses, said the Greeks. What we write are shadows of recollections, fictions growing out of other fictions. But now these words grow out of memory failing, as where and when blanch slowly to perhaps. The two who sheltered from the sudden downpour, hugging close, or woke to each other in the dark, or quarreled hatefully-were they snatches of old stories, or were you once my wife? Death veils you in the features of passers-by, and age makes yellow secrets of our letters, until the past is unalloyed with circumstance, and becomes pure moments of unearned deserving.
Book information
ISBN: | 9780773524491 |
Publisher: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
Imprint: | McGill-Queen's University Press |
Pub date: | 12 Jul 2002 |
DEWEY: | 811.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 21 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 112 |
Weight: | 136g |
Height: | 194mm |
Width: | 132mm |
Spine width: | 9mm |