Fragile Moments (Picas Reprint Edition)
$15.95
In the light of an early winter’s white sun, a hand touches the sky’s emptiness: lovers who swore thy would die together quietly separate. Great love seems like no love and yet the memory of that love persists. The wound will be shed and sadness will be tempered by the wry realization that we don’t often die.
Jacques Brault has been at the centre of Quebec’s cultural revolution, as a poet, novelist, and essayist. He has been at the centre, not because of polemical stances, but because he has honed a vision of love, and love lost, in this remarkable suite of poems.
Translated from French by Barry Callaghan.
Poetry • PB 93 pages • 4.5 x 7 inches • 978-1-55096-511-7
“Poetic reverie aptly fits this five-part meditation on love in winter … a continuous dream-like mutation of seasonal-emotional imagery … considerable ingenuity, a touch of wry humour.” —Kingston Whig-Standard
As one of the most distinguished of contemporary Canadian writers, Jaques Brault has honed a vision of love and love lost out of “Mon pays né dans l’orphelinat de la neige
Brault, Jacques, writer (b at Montréal, Qué 29 Mar 1933). Brault is a major poet of contemporary Quebec. He studied at the Collège Sainte-Marie (Montréal), Université de Montréal and the Sorbonne (Paris), before becoming a professor at Université de Montréal in 1960. He has written for various magazines, notably Liberté, and is a literary critic and producer of literary radio programming for Radio-Canada.
Related products
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry