Before We Had Words: Volume 12

by S.P. Zitner

Words across a Ouija Board: Memory is the mother of the Muses, said the Greeks. What we write are shadows of recollections, fictions growing out of other fictions. But now these words grow out of memory failing, as where and when blanch slowly to perhaps. The two who sheltered from the sudden downpour, hugging close, or woke to each other in the dark, or quarreled hatefully-were they snatches of old stories, or were you once my wife? Death veils you...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773524495
• ISBN13: 9780773524491
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.6"