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The Unmemntioable - Moure, Erín
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"The Unmemntioable" joins letters that should not be joined. There is, in this word, an act of force. Of devastation. The unmentionable is love, of course. But in Moure's poems, love is bound to a duty: to comprehend what it was that the immigrants would not speak of. Now they are dead; their children and grandchildren know but an anecdotal pastiche of Ukrainian history. On Saskatoon Mountain in Alberta where they settled, only the chatter of the leaves remains of their presence. What was not spoken is sealed over, ...

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The Unmemntioable 2012, House of Anansi Press, Toronto

ISBN-13: 9781770890046

Trade paperback