The writings of Denise Desautels have circulated in Quebec and Europe for some thirty years or so. She is considered to be one of the most talented poets in Quebec, often taking inspiration from the visual arts which she has a gift for seeing in words. As her translator, I was very conscious of this aspect of her work, and when various choices arose in the course of the translation process, I almost always opted for the most pictorial or the most visual element possible. 'A picture is worth a thousand words' as the saying goes, but the picture, once created, can give rise in the poet's mind to metaphors and 'word art' that allow us to see the same picture in a totally new and profound way. Denise Desautels has performed this feat of poetic legerdemain brilliantly in The Night Will be Insistent. - Daniel Sloate.

The Night Will Be Insistent: Selected Poems 1987-2000 (Essential Poets Series)

Literature & Fiction

DESAUTELS, DENISE

Poetry

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In French, Tombeau de Lou. At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three years old. Like the poet. The one who remains, the survivor, the inconsolable woman. That? the anecdote. Afterwards ?if an afterwards is possible, the urgency presses, the need to find words for the pain and questions that death raises, strewn at random in revolt, in violence, in memory, in mourning and in dread. To translate the hasty metamorphosis of the ever-so-living into the ever-so-dead. To give meaning, albeit fragile, albeit mortal, to the meaningless. To relate this little story of intimate suffering ?all in all, banal ?to the great history of international proportions. In this literary tomb of eleven songs, the need to attempt a utopian reconciliation: embrace all at once the immensity of the emptiness, the chaos, our fragile humanity, and our ardent desire for resistance.

Things That Fall (Essential Translation Series)

UN LIVRE DE KAFKA A LA MAIN

LE NOROIT

MAIS LA MENACE EST UNE BELLE EXTRAVAGANCE

TOMBEAU DE LOU

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