![]() ![]() ![]() Lucid, sharp, and crisp as spring water, this collection holds a sweeping narrative power that will stay with you long after the last line. Taking seed in the dilapidated barns and warm sunlit rooms of Standish McIntyre's personal history, these poems weave a filigree of well-worn remembrances and time-honoured treaties of the self, half forgotten yet ever lingering. ![]() Standish McIntyre gives voice to the unspoken, shining a light into the dark corners of our collective memory to reveal an indelible past that gleams with clarity, empathy, and humanity. Way's Mills, Quebec, is the setting for these poems, although as with Mark Twain's Mississippi, physical place becomes a place in the heart in this elegy for lost ancestral farms. Her richly lyrical phrases capture both the fear and the beauty of growing up in a rural working-class community, anchored by the magical bond between a young girl and her grandfather. A keeper of things forgotten, a vase / for pictures made by words, a riverbed / for the stories you tell, an earthen silhouette / of a childWith vivid imagery and endless compassion for her subjects, Tanya Standish McIntyre's words breathe life. ![]()
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