One
Published on 24. April 2009
Book
Paperback/Softback
64 pages
978-0-86492-533-6 (ISBN)
Description
Winner, Governor General's Award for Poetry
Finalist, Governor General's Award for Translation
An elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau's One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the precarious immediacy of the everyday.
From the tiny trunk of opening lines taken from Paul Valery, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder, creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like the tidal bore - the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.
Finalist, Governor General's Award for Translation
An elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau's One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the precarious immediacy of the everyday.
From the tiny trunk of opening lines taken from Paul Valery, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder, creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like the tidal bore - the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.
Reviews / Votes
"Writing in the meditative tradition of Valery, Bachelard, and Bonnefoy, Serge Patrice Thibodeau creates a heightened, musical engagement with the landscapes both present and remembered." -- Don McKay "Thibodeau summons us out of ourselves into a searing attention - to the history, to the land - and translator Jo-Anne Elder faithfully captures that shiver of being in a world that knows far more than we do." -- Katia GrubisicMore details
Edition
First
Language
English
Place of publication
Fredricton
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 191 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
68 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-86492-533-6 (9780864925336)
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Persons
Serge Patrice Thibodeau is the author of a dozen collections of poetry, including Le quatuor de l'errance and Seul on Est, both of which won the Governor General's Award for poetry. He has also written numerous essays and, in 2004, an oratorio with composer Pierre Michaud entitled Odyssea, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of the founding of Acadie.
In addition to his two Governor General's Awards, Thibodeau has received numerous other honours, including the Prix France-Acadie in 1991, the Prix Edgar-Lesperance in 1994 and the Grand Prix du Festival international de la poesie de Trois-Rivieres. He has also received the prestigious Prix Emile-Nelligan, the only Acadian to ever receive this award.
Thibodeau is the editorial director of Editions Perce Neige in Moncton, NB. His poems have been translated into fourteen languages.
Jo-Anne Elder has translated many of Chiasson's works of poetry, including Beatitudes and Conversations and, with Fred Cogswell, Climates. She and Fred Cogswell also edited and translated Unfinished Dreams: Contemporary Poetry of Acadie.
In addition to his two Governor General's Awards, Thibodeau has received numerous other honours, including the Prix France-Acadie in 1991, the Prix Edgar-Lesperance in 1994 and the Grand Prix du Festival international de la poesie de Trois-Rivieres. He has also received the prestigious Prix Emile-Nelligan, the only Acadian to ever receive this award.
Thibodeau is the editorial director of Editions Perce Neige in Moncton, NB. His poems have been translated into fourteen languages.
Jo-Anne Elder has translated many of Chiasson's works of poetry, including Beatitudes and Conversations and, with Fred Cogswell, Climates. She and Fred Cogswell also edited and translated Unfinished Dreams: Contemporary Poetry of Acadie.