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The Unmemntioable
Contributor(s): Moure, Erín (Author)
ISBN: 1770890041     ISBN-13: 9781770890046
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.96  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: February 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Canadian
Dewey: 811
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.9" W x 7.8" (0.35 lbs) 136 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
 
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Publisher Description:
The Unmemntioable joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?