The Unlit Path Behind the House
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The Unlit Path Behind the House

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The Unlit Path Behind the House

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The day's an old room / stripped of its furniture; there are / never enough beds in winter. / By late afternoon, the shadows / are forming a blue inconsolable hall // as sparrows retreat to makeshift / cots of pine bark and eaves. // Even the parched marsh grass / has stilled, every blade / become an ear. Sensuous, atmospheric, and spare, The Unlit Path Behind the House collects poems that seek light in difficult places. In lines filled with an intense music, Margo Wheaton listens for the lyricism inside the day's blessings and catastrophes. Wheaton's poems sing at the intersections where public and private worlds collide: the steady cadence of a boy carrying an unconscious girl in his arms, the afternoon journey of a woman taking books to prisoners, the rhythmic breathing of a homeless man asleep in a parking lot. In these works, fireflies pulse in the dark, lovers clasp and unclasp, and street signs sing like Blake's angels. Deeply informed by the natural world, Wheaton's writing is marked by great meditative depth; while passionately engaged, these poems evoke a field of mystery and stillness. Whether exploring themes of isolation, spiritual dispossession, desire, or the sanctity of daily rituals, The Unlit Path Behind the House conveys our longing for home and the different ways we try to find it.

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Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780773598904
Topic
Literatura
Subtopic
Poesía canadiense

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. CONTENTS
  4. SEEING ME HOME
  5. I
  6. FIREFLIES
  7. MISPLACED
  8. WHAT BEGINS WITH ENDINGS for M.S.
  9. WAITING
  10. INSTRUCTION
  11. PAUSE
  12. GIFTS
  13. UNSUMMONED for W.
  14. SIGHTING
  15. FOR PAUL, AWAY
  16. NORTH STREET
  17. BACK
  18. WORK
  19. II
  20. TORN for Rhonda Bourgeois 1964–1992
  21. III
  22. BROKEN
  23. LINES TOWARDS PRAISING THE START OF NOVEMBER
  24. WEEKDAY MORNING SONGS
  25. IN THE BEGINNING
  26. MAKERS
  27. DISTANCE
  28. UNRESOLVED
  29. THE PATH BEHIND THE HOUSE
  30. JOYRIDE teenage girl to boy, community addictions centre
  31. TOOLS
  32. SPRING
  33. COUPLE INDOORS
  34. BEDS Plage de l’Aboiteau, Cap-Pelé, New Brunswick
  35. IV
  36. DIMENSIONS OF RED
  37. RAIN
  38. CAREFUL
  39. MORNING GHAZAL
  40. WHEN THE HEART BELIEVES IT’S FOUND A HOME
  41. PARTICULARS
  42. STILL LIFE Sunflowers, 1888, National Gallery
  43. CROSSING THE FIELD
  44. MILL ROAD
  45. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS