Fields of Light and Stone
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
ISBN-10
1772125113
ISBN-13
9781772125115
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Imprint
University of Alberta Press
Country of Manufacture
CA
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 16th, 2020
Print length
104 Pages
Weight
128 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 13.30 x 0.60 cms
Product Classification:
PoetryPoetry / Poems
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Memory and reality, homeland and settlement, life and death—uncovering sacrifices, secrets, and forgiveness.
You lie awake,needlessly fingeringthis patchwork guilt.Remorse, a codeyou live by; distress callsfor someone to blame.—from “Threads” Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring their influence on her life. Her elegiac love letter to them articulates her grief against the backdrop of their involuntary emigration. She artfully captures the immigrant identity, vital to Canadian culture, in poems that draw on events both personal and global: war and famine, dementia and cancer, hidden sacrifice and secrets. Her poems captivate with themes of ancestry, memory, resilience, and forgiveness. Fields of Light and Stone is a reflection on how family history shapes and moves us.
"In Fields of Light and Stone, Angeline Schellenberg turns to old love letters, datebooks, sermon notes, archived genealogies, and her own memory in a quest to understand her biological and spiritual heritage. Her search uncovers a treasure trove of courage and betrayal, love and loss. Through the alchemy of honed poetic skills and unflinching insight, her findings are transformed into evocative and personal poems that honour beloved grandparents and will echo long in the minds and memory of her readers."
"Angeline Schellenberg performs acts of remembrance that are all the more poetic for being scrupulously plainspoken, like their subjects. As I read these lyrical, earthbound gestures, Denise Levertov’s lines about her own ancestors, who ''prayed with the bench and the floor'' kept coming back to me. Fields of Light and Stone is a series of love letters to the dead that makes its own eloquence out of ''what was at hand,'' musical like a western meadowlark, ordinary like a well-worn burlap sack—an elegy to cherish."
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