Research Catalog

Title

Delirium for solo harp / Nadine McInnis.

Author

McInnis, Nadine, 1957-

Publication

• Ottawa : BuschekBooks, [2015]
• ©2015

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Description

103 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

How do we accompany someone we love through the process of dying? This is the question explored in this work, in which the harp is a stand-in for the visceral aspects of being human. In these unflinching poems about the final days of her father's life, Nadine McInnis accompanies him, tuned and attuned to the music of memory and of mourning.

Subjects

• Grief
• Bereavement
• Grief > Poetry
• Canadian poetry
• Bereavement > Poetry
• Death > Poetry
• Poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• Poems.

Contents

Illustration 1 -- Epigraph -- Prologue -- Illustration 2 -- Roots -- Robin -- Three travellers -- Playing Scrabble with my father -- Cord -- Aeolian -- Illustration 3 -- Wood -- My father's dogs -- Illustration 4 -- Steel strings -- Stings -- Illustration 5 -- Neck -- Jo M'enamori d'un aire -- Illustration 6 -- Gut strings -- Not even waving, just drowning -- Water spirit -- Spirits -- Delirium -- Rhythm -- Fhear a 'Bhata -- Illustration 7 -- Levers -- Letting go -- Arran boat song -- Dream Habanera -- Voyage -- Reversal -- Claiming the body -- Last rites -- Illustration 8 -- Sounding board -- Breath -- Mirrors -- Ashes -- There is a whirlpool -- Nurses -- In the beak midwinter -- Thugamar fein an Samhradh linn -- Mother's day -- 1924, summer -- Illustration 9 -- Sources -- Acknowledgements.

Call Number

JFD 16-289

ISBN

• 9781894543842
• 189454384X

OCLC

904182342

Author

McInnis, Nadine, 1957- author.

Title

Delirium for solo harp / Nadine McInnis.

Publisher

Ottawa : BuschekBooks, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Research Call Number

JFD 16-289