
Montreal Before Spring
Robert Melancon(Author)
Biblioasis (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 4. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
72 pages
978-1-77196-011-3 (ISBN)
Description
Telephone wires, dark as a line in a schoolboy's notebook against the dawn; paint flakes from houses drifting down like dust; the hulking shadow of a desk that emerges, stock-still as a cow, in the moment of waking. Join poet Robert Melancon for a quiet celebration of his city, its inhabitants, and the language that gives it life. From "Eden": You go forth drunk on the multitudes, drunk on everything, while the lampposts sprinkle nodding streets with stars. Robert Melancon, former poetry columnist for Le Devoir is a recipient of the Governor General's Award, the Prix Victor-Barbeau, and the Prix Alain-Grandbois.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for Montreal Before Spring "Rich and deceptively simple... one of Quebec's major poets."--Globe & Mail "Melancon deftly links seasons, the city space and their relation to age with his effortless metaphors ... A thread of romanticism throbs beneath [his] poetry, [which] is intoxicated, fascinated with experiencing the surrounding world."--New York Daily News "There is a great tenderness in these poems...Melancon sees the big and the small and treats them with equal respect and curiosity...Donald McGrath's translation is invisible, seamless."--Michael Dennis, poetMore details
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Language
English
Place of publication
Emeryville
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
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Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
91 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77196-011-3 (9781771960113)
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Robert Melancon is one of Quebec's most revered contemporary poets and a two-time winner of the Governor General's Award. A longtime translator of Canadian poet A.M. Klein, Melancon has been the poetry columnist for Le Devoir and the Radio-Canada program En Toutes Lettres; he is also a critic and has been a professor at the University of Montreal. In addition to the Governor General's Award he is a past recipient of the Prix Victor-Barbeau and the Prix Alain-Grandbois.