Before We Had Words: Volume 12

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.

About the author

S.P. Zitner

Product details

• Authors: Zitner, Sheldon Zitner, Sheldon P. Zitner
• Publisher: Mcgill-Queen's University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2002
• EAN: 9780773524491
• ISBN: 978-0-7735-2449-1
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 194 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 136 g
• Series: Hugh MacLennan Poetry; Hugh Maclennan Poetry Series; Hugh MacLennan Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies