Countenances

Michel Beaulieu was a poet of extraordinary discipline and intelligence, yet there was nothing effete about his language or his world: it was a verse vitally alive, filled with reflection on anxiety, the acidity of estranged love, the gentleness of failed anticipations. When first published in French in 1982, the book received the Governor General’s Award. Beaulieu was the most productive and the most genuinely experimental of Quebec’s younger poets until his sudden death in 1985. He published nearly twenty texts — among them FM, Annecdotes, Oracle des Ombres, and in translation with Exile Editions, Countenances, Spells of Fury, and Kaleidoscope.

Translated from French by Josée Michaud

Poetry 1986 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 121 pages: • 9780920428030