The House You Were Born In
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The House You Were Born In

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The House You Were Born In

About this book

a keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a childWith vivid imagery and endless compassion for her subjects, Tanya Standish McIntyre's words breathe life. Her richly lyrical phrases capture both the fear and the beauty of growing up in a rural working-class community, anchored by the magical bond between a young girl and her grandfather. Way's Mills, Quebec, is the setting for these poems, although as with Mark Twain's Mississippi, physical place becomes a place in the heart in this elegy for lost ancestral farms. Standish McIntyre gives voice to the unspoken, shining a light into the dark corners of our collective memory to reveal an indelible past that gleams with clarity, empathy, and humanity. Taking seed in the dilapidated barns and warm sunlit rooms of Standish McIntyre's personal history, these poems weave a filigree of well-worn remembrances and time-honoured treaties of the self, half forgotten yet ever lingering. Lucid, sharp, and crisp as spring water, this collection holds a sweeping narrative power that will stay with you long after the last line.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. COPYRIGHT
  3. CONTENTS
  4. EBONY JEWELWING
  5. THE HOUSE
  6. VIEW WEST
  7. WEDDING PICTURES
  8. ONE BODY
  9. AFTERNOONS
  10. BLACK RASPBERRIES
  11. LES FRUITS
  12. VERNACULAR
  13. SUBJECT MATTER
  14. SUGARING
  15. RED TRACTOR
  16. HEDGEROW
  17. THE COPSE
  18. THE PLACEHOLDERS
  19. SILVER-PLATE
  20. DOWN BY THE CULVERT
  21. ELM AND VINE
  22. BEAR RIVER
  23. THE BUICK
  24. FIRESIDE FOLK SONGS
  25. SIMPLE HAZARDS
  26. ELECTRIC LIGHT STORM
  27. NIGHTLY PRAYER
  28. THE SPICE RACK
  29. VERNAL
  30. THE FAIR
  31. HORSES
  32. IRON LUNG
  33. STORY GIRL
  34. THE POND
  35. THE WHITE ROCK
  36. SOMETHING
  37. THE CLOSET
  38. GHOST STORIES
  39. THE THREE SISTERS
  40. THREE BROTHERS
  41. SUSAN
  42. MILDRED
  43. OAK STOVE
  44. DISHES
  45. OTHER GRANDMOTHER
  46. FATHER WAS A MINER
  47. ONE FOR FRED
  48. JUNIPER
  49. SOUNDTRACK
  50. EGLANTINE
  51. THE MAPLES
  52. BEFORE AND AFTER THE COWS
  53. FLOODLANDS
  54. SACRIFICE
  55. IF THERE IS A HEAVEN
  56. LORD OF THE ELEMENTS
  57. GARDEN
  58. WOMAN OF THE FERN
  59. CONFESSIONS OF A FARMER
  60. DOORBELL
  61. REQUIEM
  62. THE HAWK
  63. CABIN
  64. WEATHERVANE
  65. WINTERGREEN
  66. NOTES
  67. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  68. PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED WORKS