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Title: |
Fields of Light and Stone |
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| By (author): |
Angeline Schellenberg |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772125113 : 9781772125115 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x133x6mm |
| Pages: |
104 |
| Weight: |
.128 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - March 2020 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 20 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry by individual poets |
| You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt. Remorse, a code you live by; distress calls for someone to blame. â from â Threadsâ 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. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Everything There Is to Say · ix In some reminiscent hour Love Letters, 1944-45 · 4-47 Time in Evergreen Resurrection · 7 Tokens of Mercy · 9 This Is His Body · 11 Threads · 14 Beckoning Hills · 16 Preaching to the Choir · 17 Dementia, Warm October · 18 Grandpa's Day Timers · 21 For When You Wondered Why I Wasn't There · 23 The Minute I Heard You Died · 25 After Eights · 26 Funeral Tape · 28 Clouds above Canola Gardening Advice from the Wife of a Pious Pastor · 33 The Autumn of Your Cancer · 35 Scavenger Hunt · 37 Between Seed and Harvest · 38 For Your Name's Sake · 39 Closure · 42 The Night of the Fair · 44 Are you sewing, Mom? · 46 Deep Breathing · 48 What Little Things Come to Us · 49 There Is the Old Brick House · 50 Fields of Light and Stone Fields · 54 Shivered into Being In My First Five Year Diary · 57 Making Sheep · 58 Unwinding · 59 Oma's Girl · 60 Bias Binding · 61 In Whispers He's Still the Wanderer · 63 All Is Bright · 64 As We Left They Sang · 65 Edges · 67 Division · 69 What the Aspens Whispered Under the Shadow of Your Name · 73 He Made Me Promise to Remember Arkadak · 74 Ancient Script · 76 Generations · 77 Plans to Prosper · 78 His Hands · 79 Sunset on Deep Bay · 80 Souvenir · 81 After the Funeral, I Pick up My Box · 82 Passages · 83 The First Trees · 84 Notes · 85 Acknowledgements · 89 |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Kobzar Book Award
2020
Canada
Short-listed
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| Reviews: |
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"Schellenberg's collection is a love letter to these four people [grandparents] whose lives were so completely intertwined with hers." Kyla Neufeld, Prairie Books Now, Spring/Summer 2020 [Full article at https://prairiebooksnow.ca/articles/view/poet-reflects-on-her-grandparents-lives-through-poetry-and-collected-letters-artifacts]
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"Schellenberg's best poems don't offer easy answers, and do a good job of letting the question lie." -- Jonathan Ball, Winnipeg Free Press -- 20200627
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"While most of the book's poems are based on personal connections Schellenberg built with her grandparents over the years, she also explores topics of their ancestry, immigration, and courtship.... Some of the poems touch on the poignant theme of loss..." [Full review at https://nivervillecitizen.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/former-nivervillians-second-book-reflects-on-grandparents] -- Brenda Sawatzky, Niverville Citizen -- 20200520
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"Fields of Light and Stone excavates the relationships between Schellenberg's Mennonite grandparents....The book moves among various styles and source materials as through sheaves of distinct documents..." [Full article at https://canlit.ca/article/sinews-and-sheaves/] -- Carl Watts -- Canadian Literature, 20200826
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"I was immediately attracted to its contents because of the illustration on the jacket (Last Embrace by Miriam Rudolph).... Between the covers are poems that sing of love and loss.... Schellenberg's playful use of words is evident throughout.... This book will resonate with those writing memoirs or translating old letters and will perhaps inspire others to do so. Not that long ago, I sat with the boxes of correspondence my parents had left behind after they passed away. Many of the thoughts Schellenberg expresses in her creative, poetic style went through my mind at that time and they linger still. She has left a tribute to her grandparents that will stand the test of time." -- Elfrieda Neufeld Schroeder, Mennonite History, December 2020
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