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Most Beautiful Deception
Melissa Morelli Lacr
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Description for Most Beautiful Deception
Paperback. Lacroix's poems connect readers to the physical and emotional struggles of Chopin, Schumann, and Debussy. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 135 x 9. Weight in Grams: 18.
Melissa 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 ... Read more
Melissa 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
Series
Robert Kroetsch Series
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
, Canada
ISBN
9780888646620
SKU
V9780888646620
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About Melissa Morelli Lacr
Melissa Morelli Lacroix is a writer, teacher, and editor who lives and works in Edmonton. She has degrees in creative writing from Lancaster University and the University of Alberta as well as a certificate in Translation Studies. Melissa teaches piano and writing.
Reviews for Most Beautiful Deception
Melissa Morelli Lacroix crafts poems responding to the complex negotiations of love... A Most Beautiful Deception recounts death and suffering woven through with the irreplaceable moments of life and the sweet sting of memories. Reaching to the early nineteenth century, the poems weave lives of artists, mourners, and admirers while modelling the composers' musical scores in form.... Although emphasizing degeneration ... Read more