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The Little Yellow House |
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Silent echoes of memories forgotten.
"we, the living, collect the dead. / Fallen autumn leaves, crushed flowers between / the pages of books, photographs of moments / that can never be fully recovered or even / remembered"
What have you forgotten and what have you lost? The Little Yellow House investigates recollection - searching for people and the objects that bind them to memory - to uncover the story or the small moment between people and things.
Heather Simeney MacLeod explores masterpieces, biblical stories, scientific theories, notions of reincarnation, and engages them with the plain, the lucid, and yet vibrant characters that resound with significance and vigor. Her verse reveals the secrets we have always known but somehow misplaced, whispering, "And we waste, we squander / we misplace, we misremember, and we forget." Poised between incident and memory, MacLeod's poetry considers the stillness between reflection and forgetting.
A spirited and remarkable collection, The Little Yellow House joins together everyday and extraordinary occasions to suggest that we remember and misremember more than we suppose.
What have you forgotten and what have you lost? The Little Yellow House investigates recollection - searching for people and the objects that bind them to memory - to uncover the story or the small moment between people and things.
Heather Simeney MacLeod explores masterpieces, biblical stories, scientific theories, notions of reincarnation, and engages them with the plain, the lucid, and yet vibrant characters that resound with significance and vigor. Her verse reveals the secrets we have always known but somehow misplaced, whispering, "And we waste, we squander / we misplace, we misremember, and we forget." Poised between incident and memory, MacLeod's poetry considers the stillness between reflection and forgetting.
A spirited and remarkable collection, The Little Yellow House joins together everyday and extraordinary occasions to suggest that we remember and misremember more than we suppose.
Details
Part of the Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series (number 25 in series)
98 Pages, 5 x 7.5
ISBN 9780773540217
March 2012
Formats: Paperback, eBook
"The Little Yellow House by Heather Simeney MacLeod is a vibrant, gem of a book, and MacLeod is a poet who certainly deserves wider recognition." Shawna Lemay, Edmonton Journal
Heather Simeney MacLeod is a PhD candidate at the University of Alberta in the Department of English and Film Studies and has two previous collections of poetry including The Burden of Snow.
Prologue 3
Your Voice 4
Fisherman on the Beach 5
On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs 6
Church of Auvers-sur-Oise 13
The Serpent 14
When Erin Fought beside Joan of Arc 16
The Way Katy Lost God 18
The Potato Eaters 20
Essence 21
Then She’d Know 22
Took Her and Cradled Her in His Arms 24
The Bedroom in the Little Yellow House, An Interior
without Anything: In Three Parts 25
Paradise Plum 28
Foreign Eucharist 30
A Small Demon in the Blood 32
Venice for Lonely Travellers 34
Still Life: Bottle, Lemons and Oranges 35
The City of Rabbits 36
When Eve Left Eden 38
Irit, Lot’s Wife 40
Rebecca 43
She Remembers 46
Perfectly Still in the Wind 48
Wheat Field with Crows 50
An Impossible Notion 51
The Small Burials 53
When Theo Covered Vincent’s Cofin with Sunlowers 54
Be All My Sins Remembered, A Poem on
the Confessional 56
The Raising of Lazarus 72
I Would Give Her Saskatchewan 73
She Married the Bear 76
Your Name in My Mouth 78
Yes 79
My Voice 82
Epilogue 84
Notes 85
Acknowledgments 87
About the Author 89
Your Voice 4
Fisherman on the Beach 5
On the Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs 6
Church of Auvers-sur-Oise 13
The Serpent 14
When Erin Fought beside Joan of Arc 16
The Way Katy Lost God 18
The Potato Eaters 20
Essence 21
Then She’d Know 22
Took Her and Cradled Her in His Arms 24
The Bedroom in the Little Yellow House, An Interior
without Anything: In Three Parts 25
Paradise Plum 28
Foreign Eucharist 30
A Small Demon in the Blood 32
Venice for Lonely Travellers 34
Still Life: Bottle, Lemons and Oranges 35
The City of Rabbits 36
When Eve Left Eden 38
Irit, Lot’s Wife 40
Rebecca 43
She Remembers 46
Perfectly Still in the Wind 48
Wheat Field with Crows 50
An Impossible Notion 51
The Small Burials 53
When Theo Covered Vincent’s Cofin with Sunlowers 54
Be All My Sins Remembered, A Poem on
the Confessional 56
The Raising of Lazarus 72
I Would Give Her Saskatchewan 73
She Married the Bear 76
Your Name in My Mouth 78
Yes 79
My Voice 82
Epilogue 84
Notes 85
Acknowledgments 87
About the Author 89
Selected entry
AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
(2013)
AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show
(2013)
