You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt.
Her first full-length collection, Tell Them It Was Mozart, received three Manitoba Book Awards and was a finalist for a Re Lit Award for Poetry..
About the Author Angeline Schellenberg is a poet living in Treaty 1 territory (Winnipeg).
Fields of Light and Stone is a reflection on how family history shapes and moves us.
Her poems captivate with themes of ancestry, memory, resilience, and forgiveness.
She artfully captures the immigrant identity, vital to Canadian culture, in poems that draw on events both personal and global: war and famine, dementia and cancer, hidden sacrifice and secrets.
Her elegiac love letter to them articulates her grief against the backdrop of their involuntary emigration. --from "Threads" Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring in poetry their influence on her life.
Remorse, a code you live by; distress calls for someone to blame.
You lie awake, needlessly fingering this patchwork guilt