Murmuration - John Baglow

Murmuration

Marianne’s Book

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
136 Seiten
2023
McGill-Queen's University Press (Verlag)
978-0-2280-1848-3 (ISBN)
19,90 inkl. MwSt
In a photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation and, for perhaps a singular moment, assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-changing.
and it was in these bare sands / that you fell, / beloved.

When John Baglow's partner Marianne MacKinnon died in 2006, he decided to assemble a new collection of poems in her memory. No one else knew of what proved to be a slow-moving ambition, but a member of the family mentioned one evening that Marianne had appeared in a dream, saying, “Tell John to finish my book.” After that, what choice did he have?

In a famous photograph by James Crombie, a murmuration of starlings takes, for a magical moment, the shape of a giant bird. This is the metaphor that best describes the collection: individual poems moving together in liquid formation, arcing and swooping as they will, and for perhaps just a singular moment assuming the outline of the author, helplessly ever-changing. Some of these poems, inspired by love, grief, and wonder, have been tucked away for years; others are freshly written. All here find their place.

There is no narrative in Murmuration, no chronology. Nor are the many personal remembrances and representations in the book confined to one person. Nevertheless, together they are one way of seeing, one way of being. Marianne would approve.

John Baglow is a writer and researcher living in Ottawa and the author of two previous volumes of poetry.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Hugh MacLennan Poetry Series
Verlagsort Montreal
Sprache englisch
Maße 127 x 191 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 0-2280-1848-X / 022801848X
ISBN-13 978-0-2280-1848-3 / 9780228018483
Zustand Neuware
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