Synopses & Reviews
Telephone wires, dark as a line in a schoolboy's notebook against the dawn; paint flakes from houses drifting down like dust; the hulking shadow of a desk that emerges, stock-still as a cow, in the moment of waking. Join poet Robert Melançon for a quiet celebration of his city, its inhabitants, and the language that gives it life.
From "Eden":
You go forth drunk on
the multitudes, drunk
on everything, while
the lampposts sprinkle
nodding streets with stars.
Robert Melançon, former poetry columnist for Le Devoir is a recipient of the Governor General's Award, the Prix Victor-Barbeau, and the Prix Alain-Grandbois.
Review
Praise for Montreal Before Spring
"Rich and deceptively simple... one of Quebec's major poets."Globe and Mail
Melançon deftly links seasons, the city space and their relation to age with his effortless metaphors
A thread of romanticism throbs beneath [his] poetry, [which] is intoxicated, fascinated with experiencing the surrounding world.”
New York Daily News
Synopsis
You go forth, drunk onthe multitudes, drunk
on everything, while
the lampposts sprinkle
nodding streets with stars.
from "Eden"
Synopsis
"Rich and deceptively simple . . . one of Quebec's major poets."Globe and Mail
About the Author
Robert Melançon is one of Québecs most revered contemporary poets and a two-time winner of the Governor Generals Award. A longtime translator of Canadian poet A.M. Klein, Melançon has been the poetry columnist for
Le Devoir and the Radio-Canada program
En Toutes Lettres; he is also a critic and has been a professor at the University of Montreal. In addition to the Governor General's Award he is a past recipient of the Prix Victor-Barbeau and the Prix Alain-Grandbois.