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Megan's guitar : and other poems from Acadie

2013

Format:	Book
Author:	Bourque, Darrell.
Title:	Megan's guitar : and other poems from Acadie / Darrell Bourque.
Publisher, Date:	Lafayette, Louisiana : University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press, 2013.
Description:	xiii, 91 pages ; 23cm
Other Title:	Poems. Selections
LCCN:	2013009386
ISBN:	9781935754244 (pbk.) 1935754246 (pbk.)
Other Number:	835115899
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Megan's Guitar and Other Poems from Acadie is both poetic inquiry and poetic exploration. The collection is arranged as a diptych: the first and third sections are a mirroring of the ideas of settlement, displacement, migration, and identity, but mostly they are inquiries into the movements and habitations of the migratory heart, "Acadie tropicale" largely references life in modern southern Acadia while "Acadie du nord" is an attempt to tell the story of the eighteenth-century northern Acadian experience through predominantly historical figures who survived displacement and attempts at erasure. The hinge section suggests that song is both catalyst and clarifier, a requisite antidote to the calcifying lines every history has a tendency to draw around itself if not examined and re-examined in every way imaginable. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

	Preface Jean Arceneaux	p. xii
I	Acadie Tropicale
	Before the Sparrows wakened	p. 3
	Sunday Afternoons Behind T-Maurice's Dancehall	p. 4
	The Wash House	p. 5
	Standing Water in the Yard on the Feast Day of Saint Médard	p. 6
	Moisy Builds an Accordion for Arcade	p. 7
	Within Your Reach	p. 8
	Unfinished Painting	p. 9
	The Mallard at Her Nest	p. 10
	"Of Men and Rivers"	p. 11
	Church Point Breakdown	p. 13
	La Vie Contemplative	p. 15
	Venus Rising in Haiti	p. 16
	August 2005	p. 18
	Van Gogh's Samaritan	p. 19
	Reading Ida Kohlmeyer's Cluster # 39	p. 20
	Pluck the Strings	p. 21
	Turtle Dreams	p. 23
	Dreams and Nightingales	p. 24
	Dreaming My Father-In-Law	p. 26
	Elemore from the Other Side	p. 27
	Passage	p. 28
	Holding the Notes	p. 29
	The Prayer Card	p. 30
	Finding the Entrance to the Grotto	p. 31
	The Things Elemore Left Behind	p. 32
	The Stone Slab in the Memory Garden	p. 33
	First Winter at Camp Beausoleil	p. 34
II	Megan's Guitar
	Cloud Shifts	p. 37
	Megan's Guitar	p. 38
	Vanitas	p. 41
III	Acadie Du Nord
	How We Became a New World People	p. 45
	Building the Dikes at Beaubassin	p. 46
	Beausoleil Confesses to LaLoutre	p. 47
	Beausoleil in Prison	p. 48
	Beausoleil Loses His Son	p. 49
	Beausoleil Faces the Final Solution	p. 50
	René Leblanc Seeks Reconciliation	p. 51
	René Leblanc's Account of the Passage to South Carolina	p. 52
	Beausoleil Meets Elizabeth Brasseaux	p. 53
	Beausoleil Talks to His Daughter Francoise	p. 54
	Madeleine Richard's Flight to Caraquet	p. 55
	Tintamarre	p. 56
	Madeleine LeBlanc comes to Baie Sainte-Marie	p. 57
	From Grand Pré to Belle-Ile-En-Mer	p. 58
	Madeleine Comeaux Trahan Sails to Louisiana with Her Children, 1785	p. 59
	Olivier Terrio at the Headwaters of Bayou Lafourche	p. 60
	Elizabeth Brasseaux's Turn	p. 61
	Evangeline Speaks	p. 62
	Marguerite Thibodeau Broussard's Reconciliation	p. 63
	Beausoleil Leaves Saint-Domingue	p. 64
	Marie Landry Bourg Near Lake Borgne	p. 65
	Beausoleil Leaves New Orleans	p. 66
	Agnès As Memory	p. 67
	Early Life at Camp Beausoleil	p. 68
	Beausoleil's Last Night	p. 69
	The Song He Left Behind	p. 70
	Jean Guilbeau's Journey from Beaubassin to Beaubassin	p. 71
	Notes	p. 73
	Acknowledgements	p. 89

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