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A Most Beautiful Deception

English · Paperback / Softback

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Melissa Morelli Lacroix explores the love and longing, loss and pain, grief and healing found in the music of Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schumann, and Claude Debussy in a series of poetic cycles that respond to each composer's work. Lacroix writes with her ear finely tuned to the music of death and decay, to the harmonies and discords of music, nature, and human desire. Always, in A Most Beautiful Deception, we find the chords of love and devotion being torn apart by the deterioration of the body. Lacroix uses her research into the composers' lives to add layers and nuance, thus creating a complex triangle between the reader, the music, and the poet. Woven almost imperceptibly into these accounts of three composers and their respective fights against the decay of the body and the mind, lies the thread of the poet's own relationships and loss.

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Melissa Morelli Lacroix is a writer, teacher, and editor who lives and works in Edmonton. She has degrees in creative writing from Lancaster University and the University of Alberta as well as a certificate in Translation Studies. Melissa teaches piano and writing.

Summary

Lacroix’s poems connect readers to the physical and emotional struggles of Chopin, Schumann, and Debussy.

Product details

Authors Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Melissa Morelli Lacroix, Melissa Morelli Lacroix
Publisher University of Alberta Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 21.01.2014
 
EAN 9780888646620
ISBN 978-0-88864-662-0
No. of pages 120
Dimensions 135 mm x 229 mm x 9 mm
Weight 18 g
Series Robert Kroetsch Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Robert Kroetsch
Subjects Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry
Humanities, art, music > Music > Monographs

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