LEADER 03612nam 2200673 450 001 9910787972903321 005 20231206215905.0 010 $a0-88864-826-X 024 7 $a10.1515/9780888648266 035 $a(CKB)2670000000548663 035 $a(EBL)3291554 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001216682 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11728733 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001216682 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11197907 035 $a(PQKB)10538492 035 $a(CEL)447348 035 $a(OCoLC)876861042 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00234204 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4827038 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11370588 035 $a(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/2vvsh4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4827038 035 $a(DE-B1597)662496 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780888648266 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3291554 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000548663 100 $a20170425h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA most beautiful deception $epoems /$fMelissa Morelli Lacroix 205 $a1st edition. 210 1$aEdmonton, Alberta :$cThe University of Alberta Press,$d2014. 210 4$d©2014 215 $a1 online resource (120 p.) 225 1 $aRobert Kroetsch series 300 $aPoems. 311 $a0-88864-662-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aFront Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chopin for the Dying -- Reunion -- Presentiment of Death -- Thou Art So Like a Flower -- Suffocation -- Uncertainty -- Tolling Bells -- The Polish Dancer -- Desperation -- Vision -- The Night Moth -- The Dragon Fly -- The Duel -- Loss -- Fear -- Raindrops -- Hades -- A Scene on the Place de Notre-Dame de Paris -- Suicide -- Heartfelt Happiness -- Funeral March -- Sunday -- Impatience -- A Pleasure Boat -- The Storm -- Variations on a Theme by Clozapine -- Theme -- The Fairies are Exquisite DancersHeather -- General Lavine"Eccentric -- The Terrace of Moonlight Audiences -- Undine -- Homage to S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. -- Canopic Jars -- Alternating Thirds -- Fireworks -- Author's Note -- Notes & Sources -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author. 330 $aMelissa Morelli Lacroix explores the love and longing, loss and pain, grief and healing found in the music of Frédéric Chopin, Clara Schumann, and Claude Debussy in a series of poetic cycles that respond to each composer's work. Lacroix writes with her ear finely tuned to the music of death and decay, to the harmonies and discords of music, nature, and human desire. Always, in A Most Beautiful Deception, we find the chords of love and devotion being torn apart by the deterioration of the body. Lacroix uses her research into the composers' lives to add layers and nuance, thus creating a complex triangle between the reader, the music, and the poet. Woven almost imperceptibly into these accounts of three composers and their respective fights against the decay of the body and the mind, lies the thread of the poet's own relationships and loss. 410 0$aRobert Kroetsch series. 606 $aCanadian poetry$zAlberta$zEdmonton 610 $aCanadian Literature. 610 $aMusicology. 610 $aPoetry. 615 0$aCanadian poetry 676 $a811.5408 700 $aLacroix$b Melissa Morelli$f1975-$01553086 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787972903321 996 $aA most beautiful deception$93813343 997 $aUNINA