The Wedding Reels
- Publisher
- Breton Books
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2013
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926908151
- Publish Date
- Jan 2013
- List Price
- $16
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Description
Not for the faint of heart, Joyce Rankin’s new book returns to the traditional roots she mined for At My Mother's Door. Now in The Wedding Reels she has gone more to the heart of the moments of grief and doubt that we so often carry alone, and for which we rarely have the words. Eventually, love does abide, and her loyalty to place shines through even the darkest moments life can offer. This is the intimate poetry of the storyteller — frank, clear, unforgettable. “Joyce Rankin's The Wedding Reels is a collection of poetry whose subjects are as local as a square dance, whose themes are as universal as life itself.” — Frank Macdonald, author of A Forest for Calum. Poet George Elliott Clarke called Joyce Rankin's best-selling first book “a hymn of survival and settlement.”