This is a daughter’s poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love. In Greek myth, the daughters of Memory were the Muses. Alice Major listens carefully to their voices. “…tender, wise, beautifully cadenced work which embraces the reader on every page.” – Don Domanski
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2010.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 811/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9780888647658 9780888645395
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.M3454
- LCCN Item number
- M46 2010eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (134 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00974285 (OCoLC)869282827 (CaOOCEL)452880
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Baucis and Philemon 12
- Eve learns endearments 14
- Eve learns endearments 16
- Eve’s children 20
- Eve waters the garden 23
- Eve raises her hand to the tree 26
- Fall in the garden 28
- Eve sings lullabies 30
- Eve studies botany 31
- World spelled backwards 32
- Memory’s daughter 34
- Glosa: Memory’s daughter 36
- Vastly out of scale 38
- Time scale 39
- Princesses and frog 40
- Deep field experiment 41
- The Gorgon’s head 42
- Penelope weaving 43
- Glosa: Parting 44
- Suncatcher 46
- What I will need to hold your ashes 47
- And we are here 48
- Here 50
- Retort as furnace 51
- The Industrial Revolution 51
- Come to Nature 53
- Vienna Exposition, 1873 54
- Orphanage as machine 55
- Solution to a Problem of Production 55
- Moving Parts 57
- Force Fed 59
- For the Children 60
- Gas light 61
- The Gas Mantle I 61
- The Dangers You Can Live With 62
- My Mother As History 63
- The Gas Mantle II 64
- The Movies 65
- Persistence of Vision 65
- Oh, Rose Marie, I Love You 66
- Maytime 68
- Song 70
- Transport 71
- Romance 71
- Camouflage 73
- Book Passage 74
- Clocks 76
- The Uniformity System 76
- Escapement 77
- Assembly Line 78
- Explosives 80
- Hell's Kitchen 80
- The Ballad of Red Clydeside 83
- The Tory Candidate Comes to Call 85
- Red Mary 86
- Camera 87
- Latent Image 87
- The Studio Photographs 89
- The Accidental Snapshot 90
- Diagnostic Imaging 91
- Lullaby for my mother 93
- Time is how 94
- Time is how 96
- Lines that break apart 97
- The fish is not a plant 98
- One thing becomes another 99
- Enjambment 100
- The million generations 101
- The radiant array of plumages 102
- Time, infinitely patient, joins 103
- Have not the power to recant 104
- Begins to breed 105
- One cell that senses light grows into eye 106
- I am not bird nor ever could be 107
- Feather emerges from scale 108
- The generations that encage 109
- Metamorphoses 110
- A girl intending to become a butterfly 112
- A girl being transformed into a tree 113
- A girl being transformed into a map 114
- A girl transforming the world into a fairy tale 115
- A girl being transformed into a melody 116
- Body transforming into mind 117
- A girl turning fear into courage 118
- The danger of turning a girl into a poem 120
- The great work 122
- Calcination 124
- Digestion 125
- Fermentation 126
- Fixation 127
- Filtration 128
- Ceration 129
- Distillation 130
- Congelation 131
- Sublimation 132
- Union through solution 133
- Union through multiplication 134
- Union through projection 135
- Glosa: The Weather 136
- Acknowledgements 138
- Notes 140
