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Memory's Daughter
This is a daughter's poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love. In Greek myth, the daughters of Memory were the Muses. Alice Major listens carefully to their voices. ".tender, wise, beautifully cadenced work which embraces the reader on every page." - Don Domanski
- GenresPoetry
144 pages, Paperback
First published February 1, 2006
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About the author
Alice Major
27 books14 followersAlice Major is a Canadian poet, who served as poet laureate of Edmonton, Alberta. During her tenure as poet laureate, she founded the Edmonton Poetry Festival in 2006. She continues to serve on the Board of Directors for the Edmonton Poetry Festival Society as President.
Major emigrated from Scotland with her sister at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario before working as a weekly newspaper reporter in central British Columbia. She has lived in Edmonton, Alberta since 1981. She has a BA (English, history) from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and works as a freelance writer specializing in utility issues.
She is past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta, and the League of Canadian Poets. She has published six collections of poetry. Her poetry has always been influenced by her interest in science and she has published a collection of essays, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science.
Major emigrated from Scotland with her sister at the age of eight, and grew up in Toronto, Ontario before working as a weekly newspaper reporter in central British Columbia. She has lived in Edmonton, Alberta since 1981. She has a BA (English, history) from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and works as a freelance writer specializing in utility issues.
She is past president of the Writers Guild of Alberta, and the League of Canadian Poets. She has published six collections of poetry. Her poetry has always been influenced by her interest in science and she has published a collection of essays, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science.
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January 17, 2016
A very powerful and moving poetic memoir, drawing on Greek myth to tell the story of parents and family and cancer and Alzheimer's and emigration and history and. . .
If I were a poet of Alice Major's calibre, perhaps I could do justice to how she told the story of her parents' life, and death, but since I'm not, I'll just say Very emotion. Much moving. So feelings. Wow.
And I'll single out "Baucis & Philemon" and "Here" and "The Ballad of Red Clydeside" for special mention.
If I were a poet of Alice Major's calibre, perhaps I could do justice to how she told the story of her parents' life, and death, but since I'm not, I'll just say Very emotion. Much moving. So feelings. Wow.
And I'll single out "Baucis & Philemon" and "Here" and "The Ballad of Red Clydeside" for special mention.
September 19, 2010
A beautiful collection. Especially liked "Clocks" and the "Metamorphoses" poems.
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