The Little Yellow House

Heather Simeney MacLeod, Heather Simeney Macleod

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN:
  9780773540217
• eBook ISBN:
  9780773586864
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Literature

"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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• THE HUGH MACLENNAN POETRY SERIES
• Copyright
• THE LITTLE YELLOW HOUSE
• PROLOGUE
• YOUR VOICE
• FISHERMAN ON THE BEACH
• ON THE REVOLUTIONS OF THE CELESTIAL ORBS
• CHURCH AT AUVERS-SUR-OISE
• THE SERPENT
• WHEN ERIN FOUGHT BESIDE JOAN OF ARC
• THE WAY KATY LOST GOD
• THE POTATO EATERS
• ESSENCE
• THEN SHE’D KNOW
• TOOK HER AND CRADLED HER IN HIS ARMS
• THE BEDROOM IN THE YELLOW HOUSE, AN INTERIOR WITHOUT ANYTHING: IN THREE PARTS
• PARADISE PLUM
• FOREIGN EUCHARIST
• A SMALL DEMON IN THE BLOOD
• VENICE FOR LONELY TRAVELLERS
• STILL LIFE: BOTTLE, LEMONS AND ORANGES
• THE CITY OF RABBITS
• WHEN EVE LEFT EDEN
• IRIT, LOT’S WIFE
• REBECCA
• SHE REMEMBERS
• PERFECTLY STILL IN THE WIND
• WHEAT FIELD WITH CROWS
• AN IMPOSSIBLE NOTION
• THE SMALL BURIALS
• WHEN THEO COVERED VINCENT’S COFFIN WITH SUNFLOWERS
• BE ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED, A POEM ON THE CONFESSIONAL
• THE RAISING OF LAZARUS
• I WOULD GIVE HER SASKATCHEWAN
• SHE MARRIED THE BEAR
• YOUR NAME IN MY MOUTH
• YES
• MY VOICE
• EPILOGUE
• NOTES
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR