Entre Rive and Shore

von Dominique Cormier

104 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Winner, Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry Finalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize >" I used to think this was a book about a disguise, but now I know that it's a book about translation." According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself in a dress. In the invigorating, transliterative Entre Rive and Shore, Dominique Bernier-Cormier uses his ancestor's escape to ponder what it means to live between two languages. Writing in a blend of English and French that evokes Chiac, " a living thing, growing gills, a voice from the future, prophetic and clear," Bernier-Cormier probes the mutability of language and of translation. A heady mix of English renderings of a single French poem, a Franco-fusion mé lange of reflections on Acadian history and identity, and meditations on the evolution of language and the rapper Young Thug, Entre Rive and Shore exhibits " an eloquence we aren't attuned to." The result is protean, an exhilarating collection that reassesses what it means to live between two identities, two worlds, two languages.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Lyrik, Poesie Lyrik einzelner Dichter
• ISBN: 9781773102870
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 28.03.2023
• Größe: 213 x 137 mm
• Verlag: Goose Lane Editions