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2023., Véhicule Press Call No: NEW QWF 811.6 N439f Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu's life. First, his granddaughter Lily, who he imagines maturing into a complex world, haunted by her memory of him as he is haunted now by her projected self, navigating an era awash in uncertainty and unease. Imbued with both wonder and disquiet, it is an aging poet's celebration of childhood, as well as a meditation on his own "future absence." There follows his celebration of C, the woman with whom Nepveu shares his nights and days. These are love poems dedicated to a companion who has aided him in finding "new phrases that reformulate the impossible." The culmination of a brilliant career, translated into fluent and thrilling English by Donald Winker, The Four-Doored House is Nepveu's most enduring work yet.
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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).
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c2004., Signal Editions ; Distributed in the U.S. by Independent Publishers Group Call No: QWF 811.54 N442m c.2 Availability:2 of 2 At Your LibraryClick here to watch Click here to view
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c2009., Editions du Noroît Call No: QWF FR 811.6 N439v Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Dœun trajet en métro au désert du sud-ouest américain, en passant par les tours à bureaux du centre-ville et quelques deuils, ce livre en quatre temps est une quête de raisons de vivre. Sœil propose des « exercices de survie , ce nœest pas par cynisme ou désabusement, mais par espoir de dépasser le mort en retrouvant un chemin de vie plus dénudé, plus essentiel. Les « verbes majeurs sont les plus simples mais en réalité les seuls qui comptent : « naître, grandir, aimer / penser, croire, mourir . On sœy cherche, on sœy découvre, on sœy brise. Au bout du parcours, au rythme dœun vieux rituel amérindien de guérison, sœouvre lœespace dœun rassemblement, dœune ultime lumière. Mais il nœy a pas dœau-delà : nous habitons des tunnels, des maisons, des jardins, des villes aimées, et quelques paysages. On revient toujours chez soi, parfois avec seulement quelques pierres à déposer sur la table. On recommence, on se remet en mouvement.
