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Meridian Line

by Paul Belanger
translated by Judith Cowan

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list price: $16.00
edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: 2010
ISBN:9781550652956
publisher: Vehicule Press
Description

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.

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About the Authors

Paul Belanger

Paul Belanger

Paul Belanger, poet and editor, has been nominated for the Governor General’s Award for Poetry on three occasions, most recently for the French edition of Meridian Line (Origine des méridiens). He teaches creative writing at the University of Quebec and is the publisher of les Éditions du Noroît.He lives in Montreal, Quebec.
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Judith Cowan

Judith Cowan

Born in Nova Scotia, Judith Cowan grew up in Toronto and was educated at the University of Toronto and l`Universit? de Strasbourg, France. She has lived in Trois-Rivi?res for many years and has translated the work of a wide range of Qu?bec poets, including G?rald Godin, Yves Pr?fontaine and Yves Boisvert. Her previous story collection, More Than Life Itself (Oberon, 1997), was shortlisted for the Qu?bec Writers` Federation First Book Award. Cowan was a finalist for the Glassco Prize for her translation of Quartz and Mica (Guernica, 1987) and was awarded Le Prix G?rald-Godin by the city of Trois-Rivi?res in recognition of the story collection Plus que la vie m?me.

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