Danielle Merriott

House on the Hill: the Poetry of Ville Marie Danielle Merriott

Two best friends, Danielle and Lisa, decided to become roommates. Their apartment (named Ville Marie) was in a dilapidated old house on the crest of a hill overlooking their small city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Writing poetry was one of their favorite pastimes. Often full of angst or sadness, poetry was a therapeutic outlet to indulge creativity as well as melancholy emotions. This book is a collection of Danielle's poetry from those days in Ville Marie - From the last days of summer 2004, to the autumn days of adjusting to their new life, to the cold, bleak winter without reliable heat and too many reasons to cry, to the poignancy of moving onward with life and leaving Ville Marie in the past... Despite all the despondency that comes through in her words, the book does end with a happier tone - since, after all, she also fell in love at Ville Marie...