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2018., Véhicule Press Call No: QWF 819.13 N439h Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Québécois poet Pierre Nepveu began over four decades ago. Through a sequence of four prose poems, his anonymous protagonist walks from the heart of present-day Montreal into its southwestern margins, where the metropolis began centuries ago and which now "lays out its memories on the young grass." Questioning his sense of belonging, social unease and mortality as he walks, and following "a shadowy voice that neither sings nor speaks," Nepveu transports readers across wide spans of history, geography, metaphysics and speculation. A 2016 finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry in French, rendered in English by award-winning translator Donald Winkler, The Hardness of Matter and Water is poetry at its meditative, insightful best. Pierre Nepveu is one of Canada's most celebrated writers. A five-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Awards in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, Nepveu became a member of the Order of Canada in 2012."--
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2012., Signal Editions Call No: QWF 811.6 N439m Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Pierre Nepveu is unique among French Quebec poets for having forged a voice at once unadorned, sensuous and adventurous.His new collection, The Major Verbs,is a masterwork consisting of three sequences: one focussing on an immigrant night cleaner glimpsed on a subway, another, a riff on a group of stones on a table, and the third concerning the poetœs parents and their deaths.The book closes with a long meditative poem written in the American southwest. The Major Verbs (under its original title, Les Verbes Majeur) was nominated for a Governor-Generalœs Award for Poetry in 2010. Nepveuœs poetry collection, Mirabel won the 2003 Governor General Award for its original French-language edition and the 2004Governor General Award for Translation (Judith Cowan,translator, Signal Editions).
