listen you say
to the music
such beauty
deceives the pain
Melissa Morelli Lacroix explores the love and longing, loss and pain, grief and healing found in the music of Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schumann, and Claude Debussy in a series of poetic cycles that respond to each composer?s work. Lacroix writes with her ear finely tuned to the music of death and decay, to the harmonies and discords of music, nature, and human desire. Always, in A Most Beautiful Deception, we find the chords of love and devotion being torn apart by the deterioration of the body. Lacroix uses her research into the composers? lives to add layers and nuance, thus creating a complex triangle between the reader, the music, and the poet. Woven almost imperceptibly into these accounts of three composers and their respective fights against the decay of the body and the mind, lies the thread of the poet?s own relationships and loss.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2014.
- Description conventions
- 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
- 9780888648266 9780888646620
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.L3343
- LCCN Item number
- M68 2014eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (116 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00234204 (OCoLC)876861042 (CaOOCEL)447348
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Front Cover 1
- Title Page 4
- Copyright 5
- Dedication 6
- Contents 8
- Chopin for the Dying 12
- Reunion 14
- Presentiment of Death 16
- Thou Art So Like a Flower 17
- Suffocation 19
- Uncertainty 20
- Tolling Bells 22
- The Polish Dancer 23
- Desperation 24
- Vision 26
- The Night Moth 27
- The Dragon Fly 28
- The Duel 29
- Loss 32
- Fear 34
- Raindrops 35
- Hades 38
- A Scene on the Place de Notre-Dame de Paris 40
- Suicide 44
- Heartfelt Happiness 45
- Funeral March 48
- Sunday 49
- Impatience 51
- A Pleasure Boat 53
- The Storm 54
- Variations on a Theme by Clozapine 58
- Theme 60
- Variation I 61
- Variation II 62
- Variation III 63
- Variation IV 64
- Variation V 65
- Variation VI 66
- Variation VII 67
- Bulimia in the Key of Debussy 70
- Préludes: Book I 72
- Dancers of Delphi 74
- Voiles 75
- The Wind Over the Plains 77
- Sounds and Perfumes Mingle in the Evening Air 78
- The Hills of Anacapri 80
- Footprints in the Snow 81
- What the West Wind Saw 83
- The Girl With the Flaxen Hair 84
- The Interrupted Serenade 85
- The Sunken Cathedral 87
- Puck’s Dance 88
- Minstrels 89
- Préludes: Book II 90
- Fog 92
- Dead Leaves 93
- The Door of the Vine 94
- The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers 95
- Heather 97
- General Lavine—Eccentric 98
- The Terrace of Moonlight Audiences 99
- Undine 100
- Homage to S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. 101
- Canopic Jars 102
- Alternating Thirds 103
- Fireworks 104
- Author’s Note 106
- Notes & Sources 110
- Acknowledgements 116
- About the Author 118
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 121
