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Fields of Light and Stone de Angeline Schellenberg

Fields of Light and Stone

Autor Angeline Schellenberg
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 mar 2020
You lie awake,needlessly fingeringthis patchwork guilt.Remorse, a codeyou live by; distress callsfor 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781772125115
ISBN-10: 1772125113
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 133 x 229 x 6 mm
Greutate: 0.13 kg
Editura: University of Alberta Press
Colecția University of Alberta Press
Locul publicării:Edmonton, Canada

Cuprins

Everything There Is to Say • ixIn some reminiscent hourLove Letters, 1944–45 • 4–47Time in EvergreenResurrection • 7Tokens of Mercy • 9This Is His Body • 11Threads • 14Beckoning Hills • 16Preaching to the Choir • 17Dementia, Warm October • 18Grandpa’s Day Timers • 21For When You Wondered Why I Wasn’t There • 23The Minute I Heard You Died • 25After Eights • 26Funeral Tape • 28Clouds above CanolaGardening Advice from the Wife of a Pious Pastor • 33The Autumn of Your Cancer • 35Scavenger Hunt • 37Between Seed and Harvest • 38For Your Name’s Sake • 39Closure • 42The Night of the Fair • 44Are you sewing, Mom? • 46Deep Breathing • 48What Little Things Come to Us • 49There Is the Old Brick House • 50Fields of Light and StoneFields • 54Shivered into BeingIn My First Five Year Diary • 57Making Sheep • 58Unwinding • 59Oma’s Girl • 60Bias Binding • 61In Whispers He’s Still the Wanderer • 63All Is Bright • 64As We Left They Sang • 65Edges • 67Division • 69What the Aspens WhisperedUnder the Shadow of Your Name • 73He Made Me Promise to Remember Arkadak • 74Ancient Script • 76Generations • 77Plans to Prosper • 78His Hands • 79Sunset on Deep Bay • 80Souvenir • 81After the Funeral, I Pick up My Box • 82Passages • 83The First Trees • 84Notes • 85Acknowledgements • 89

Recenzii

"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]
“Schellenberg’s best poems don’t offer easy answers, and do a good job of letting the question lie.”
"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]
"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/]
“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.”
# 1 on Edmonton Poetry Bestsellers list, February 14, 2021
“Schellenberg’s Fields of Light and Stone enacts the terms of her title with its tender and exacting invocations of familial love…. [O]ne of the delicate strengths of Schellenberg’s poems of mourning is their fresh grief at old losses…. Fields of Light and Stone has a light touch that never confuses love for denial of death, and Angeline Schellenberg finds painful beauty in the imperfections of mourning.”
"Schellenberg weaves together snippets of her grandparents’ letters, exchanged during his WWII military service, with her own memories, ancestral recollections, and the more recent experience of her grandparents’ physical and cognitive decline. Careful handling keeps everything skimming along a delicate surface, never falling into sentimentality or pathos." Dawn Macdonald, Reviews of Books I Got for Free or Cheap!, April 13, 2025 [Full review at https://reviewsofbooksigotforfreeorcheap.substack.com/p/angeline-schellenbergs-fields-of]