Overview
In this poetry collection, Michel Pleau uses simple, moving images that go straight to the heart. He shapes words like a sculptor, with painstaking care, to give us moments of pure beauty and flashes of luminous landscape. He evokes the nostalgia of childhood in language as refreshing and bracing as the wind. With this book, Michel Pleau invites us to a celebration of the marvellous. In a collection brushed with nostalgia, he gently awakens us to the simple gestures of childhood. Attentive to his worlds, he invites us to go back to the essentials, to natural elements, innocence and light, in order to magnify the beauty of the universe.
Howard Scott
Howard Scott is a Montreal literary translator originally from Ontario. He completed an M.A. in translation at Concordia University. In 1997 he received the Governor General Translation Award for his translation of “The Euguelion” by Louky Bersianik. He has translated many books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, often in collaboration with Phyllis Aronoff. Howard Scott is a past president of the Literary Translators Association of Canada.
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