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, unmemntioable. There is no one left to contact in the Old Country. Can the unmemntioable retain its silence, yet be eased into words? Can experience still be spoken?

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: House of Anansi Press
Published: 02/14/2012
ISBN: 9781770890046
Pages: 121
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.90w x 0.50d

Review Citations: Quill & Quire 04/01/2012 pg. 27