One

Winner, Governor General’s Award for Poetry

Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Translation

An elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau’s One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the precarious immediacy of the everyday.

From the tiny trunk of opening lines taken from Paul Valéry, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder, creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like the tidal bore — the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.

AUTHOR

Serge Patrice Thibodeau

Serge Patrice Thibodeau is the author of a dozen collections of poetry, including Le quatuor de l’errance and Seul on Est, both of which won the Governor General’s Award for poetry. He has also written numerous essays and, in 2004, an oratorio with composer Pierre Michaud entitled Odysséa, which commemorated the 400th anniversary of the founding of Acadie.

In addition to his two Governor General’s Awards, Thibodeau has received numerous other honours, including the Prix France-Acadie in 1991, the Prix Edgar-Lespérance in 1994 and the Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie de Trois-Rivières. He has also received the prestigious Prix Émile-Nelligan, the only Acadian to ever receive this award.

Thibodeau is the editorial director of Éditions Perce Neige in Moncton, NB. His poems have been translated into fourteen languages.


Reviews

Written over a twenty-month period, this book of poetry is an elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good. Serge Patrice Thibodeau’s One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of the natural world and the precarious immediacy of the everyday.
“Writing in the meditative tradition of Valéry, Bachelard, and Bonnefoy, Serge Patrice Thibodeau creates a heightened, musical engagement with the landscapes both present and remembered.”
“Thibodeau summons us out of ourselves into a searing attention — to the history, to the land — and translator Jo-Anne Elder faithfully captures that shiver of being in a world that knows far more than we do.”

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Winner, Governor General’s Award for Poetry

Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for Translation

An elegant testimony to the beautiful and the good, Serge Patrice Thibodeau’s One pays homage to the vibrancy and vigor of life, backdropped against the precarious immediacy of the everyday.

From the tiny trunk of opening lines taken from Paul Valéry, Thibodeau unpacks a vision of human consciousness that exists in a state of singular wonder, creating a universe that is at once faithful and ever-changing like the tidal bore — the landscape of mascaret. Thibodeau boldly blends anecdotes, pop-ups, leitmotifs, ecological awareness, and the inner world in variations on the theme of wholeness.

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Details

Dimensions:

64 Pages
7.5in * 5in * 0.2in
74gr

Published:

April 24, 2009

Publisher:

Goose Lane Editions

ISBN:

9780864925336

9780864928108 – PDF

Book Subjects:

POETRY / Canadian

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Language:

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