Words across a Ouija Board: Memory is the mother of the Muses, said the Greeks. What we write are shadows of recollections, fictions growing out of other fictions. But now these words grow out of memory failing, as where and when blanch slowly to perhaps. The two who sheltered from the sudden downpour, hugging close, or woke to each other in the dark, or quarreled hatefully-were they snatches of old stories, or were you once my wife? Death veils you in the features of passers-by, and age makes yellow secrets of our letters, until the past is unalloyed with circumstance, and becomes pure moments of unearned deserving.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780773524491 9780773574366
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.Z58
- LCCN Item number
- B44 2002eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (ix, 112 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00212111 (OCoLC)191935721 (CaOOCEL)420365
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Before We Had Words 2
- The difference between the kind of poetry in which an I tells about itself and a poetry which sings gods and heroes is not great since in both cases the object of description is mythologized. And yet 6
- 3 4 5 6 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 8
- 19 20 21 22 23 24 From 25 30 32 8
- 35 36 37 39 40 Forward 42 44 Leviathan 45 47 9
- 51 52 53 55 56 57 59 60 61 62 64 67 9
- 71 72 73 9
- 74 75 77 79 80 81 82 from 83 84 86 87 10
- 93 94 95 96 97 99 100 101 104 107 108 109 10
- 112 10
- Ich habe tote 14
- Me metumque simul 56
- Leviathan 56
- Teufelsdreck 119
- 112 123
