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The Little Yellow House

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Silent echoes of memories forgotten.
  • 05 March 2012
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"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.

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Price: $19.95
Pages: 98
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Publication Date: 05 March 2012
Trim Size: 7.50 X 5.00 in
ISBN: 9780773540217
Format: Paperback
BISACs: POETRY / Canadian, HISTORY / Canada / Pre-Confederation (to 1867)
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"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.