For the last twenty years, Paul Bélanger''s poetry has been acclaimed for its emotionally charged vocabulary and philosophical elegance. In Meridian Line, the Québécois poet gives us a cartographer''s log of an inner landscape. Bélanger''s poems blend a deeply personal voice with fluid, open-ended lines that track the movement of consciousness against the backdrop of an elemental world: "a dirt road / lost on a swath of grey sky." The result, thanks to Judith Cowan''s brilliant translation, is meditative, mysterious, and startling.

Poems. Translation of: Origine des méridiens.