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This volume includes Hugh Hazelton's English translations of Yannick Renaud's brilliant and dark first two books of poems, Taxidermie (2005), a discourse on time consisting of prose poems stretched to the very limits of detachment, and La Disparition des Idées (2006), a meditation on time that interrogates mortality and mourning, reminding us that "death remains the privilege of the living."Yannick Renaud works in Montreal for Éditions les Herbes Rouges. Administrative director of the poetry review Estuaire, he has long been active in the production of literary events in Quebec.Hugh Hazelton specializes in teaching and translating Quebec poetry.
This volume includes Hugh Hazelton's English translations of Yannick Renaud's brilliant and dark first two books of poems, Taxidermie (2005), a discourse on time consisting of prose poems stretched to the very limits of detachment, and La Disparition des Idées (2006), a meditation on time that interrogates mortality and mourning, reminding us that "death remains the privilege of the living."Yannick Renaud works in Montreal for Éditions les Herbes Rouges. Administrative director of the poetry review Estuaire, he has long been active in the production of literary events in Quebec.Hugh Hazelton specializes in teaching and translating Quebec poetry.
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