A most beautiful deception / Melissa Morelli Lacroix.

Poems.

Includes bibliographical references.

Lacroix's poems connect readers to the physical and emotional struggles of Chopin, Schumann, and Debussy.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Chopin for the Dying -- Reunion -- Presentiment of Death -- Thou Art So Like a Flower -- Suffocation -- Uncertainty -- Tolling Bells -- The Polish Dancer -- Desperation -- Vision -- The Night Moth -- The Dragon Fly -- The Duel -- Loss -- Fear -- Raindrops -- Hades -- A Scene on the Place de Notre-Dame de Paris -- Suicide -- Heartfelt Happiness -- Funeral March -- Sunday -- Impatience -- A Pleasure Boat -- The Storm -- Variations on a Theme by Clozapine -- Theme -- Variation I -- Variation II -- Variation III -- Variation IV -- Variation V -- Variation VI -- Variation VII -- Bulimia in the Key of Debussy -- Préludes: Book I -- Dancers of Delphi -- Voiles -- The Wind Over the Plains -- Sounds and Perfumes Mingle in the Evening Air -- The Hills of Anacapri -- Footprints in the Snow -- What the West Wind Saw -- The Girl With the Flaxen Hair -- The Interrupted Serenade -- The Sunken Cathedral -- Puck's Dance -- Minstrels -- Préludes: Book II -- Fog -- Dead Leaves -- The Door of the Vine -- The Fairies are Exquisite Dancers -- Heather -- General Lavine-Eccentric -- The Terrace of Moonlight Audiences -- Undine -- Homage to S. Pickwick Esq. P.P.M.P.C. -- Canopic Jars -- Alternating Thirds -- Fireworks -- Author's Note -- Notes & Sources -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press.

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