Montréal Before Spring
Published on 19. May 2015
72 pages
978-1-77196-012-0 (ISBN)
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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 Melançon 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 Melançon, former poetry columnist for Le Devoir is a recipient of the Governor General's Award, the Prix Victor-Barbeau, and the Prix Alain-Grandbois.
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Robert Melançon is one of Québec'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, Melançon 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.
Content
- Intro
- Montreal Before Spring
- Things
- March
- Letter to George Johnston
- Air
- Sunrise in the Suburbs
- Letter to Jacques Brault
- Joy
- A Dawn
- Yellow Plane
- NDG
- Summer
- Eden
- The Passage
- Jean-Aubert Loranger
- Vespers
- Song of Oblivion
- Elegy Written in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce park
- October Song
- A Voice Heard in a Dream, Upon Awakening
- Evening Song
- Autumn Landscape
- Day's End
- The Reader
- November Song
- A Lecture
- The Young Mother
- Tours Elegy
- A Dawn
- Afternoon Song
- The Snow, One Night
- The Gods in December
- A Winter Stroll Pondering the Poetry of Horace
- Leave-Taking
- Notes
