You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt. Remorse, a code you live by; distress calls for someone to blame--from Threads Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring their influence on her life. Her elegiac love letter to them articulates her grief against the backdrop of their involuntary emigration. She artfully captures the immigrant identity, vital to Canadian culture, in poems that draw on events both personal and global: war and famine, dementia and cancer, hidden sacrifice and secrets. Her poems captivate with themes of ancestry, memory, resilience, and forgiveness. Fields of Light and Stone is a reflection on how family history shapes and moves us.
Authors
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- CaOOCEL
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- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C811/.6
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Poems Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781772125115 9781772125214
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.S3857
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2020eb
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (90 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00980544 (OCoLC)1124073932 (CaOOCEL)458783
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 4
- Copyright page 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Everything There Is to Say 10
- In Some Reminiscent Hour 12
- Love Letters, 1944–45 15
- Time in Evergreen 16
- Resurrection 18
- Tokens of Mercy 20
- This Is His Body 22
- Threads 25
- Beckoning Hills 27
- Preaching to the Choir 28
- Dementia, Warm October 29
- Grandpa’s Day Timers 32
- For When You Wondered Why I Wasn’t There 34
- The Minute I Heard You Died 36
- After Eights 37
- Funeral Tape 39
- Clouds above Canola 42
- Gardening Advice from the Wife of a Pious Pastor 44
- The Autumn of Your Cancer 46
- Scavenger Hunt 48
- Between Seed and Harvest 49
- For Your Name’s Sake 50
- Closure 53
- The Night of the Fair 55
- Are you sewing, Mom? 57
- Deep Breathing 59
- What Little Things Come to Us 60
- There Is the Old Brick House 61
- Fields of Light and Stone 62
- Fields 65
- Shivered into Being 66
- In My First Five Year Diary 68
- Making Sheep 69
- Unwinding 70
- Oma’s Girl 71
- Bias Binding 72
- In Whispers He’s Still the Wanderer 74
- All is Bright 75
- As We Left They Sang 76
- Edges 78
- Division 80
- What the Aspens Whispered 82
- Under the Shadow of Your Name 84
- He Made Me Promise to Remember Arkadak 85
- Ancient Script 87
- Generations 88
- Plans to Prosper 89
- His Hands 90
- Sunset on Deep Bay 91
- Souvenir 92
- After the Funeral, I Pick up My Box 93
- Passages 94
- The First Trees 95
- Notes 96
- Acknowledgements 100
- About the Author 102
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 105
