Life in Singular
By Claude Beausoleil

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Life in the Singular: Selected Poems

By Claude Beausoleil

Translated by Daniel Sloate
Essential Poets Series 126
ISBN 1-55071-188-1
117 pages
$12 Canada – $10 U.S.A.
Photo by Josée Lambert

“This collection of mental landscapes overflows with visions, some as haunting as half-remembered dreams, nightmarish or joyous, depending on where the dreamer’s gaze comes to rest. The poetic effect of this process is mesmerizing, similar to a convoluted mantra, soothing as sleep but with the imperious and obsessive knowledge that one must awake and live it all over again, or endless variations of it, in the dimension we call reality. The reader is swept along with these hypnotic currents, unable to escape the nets cast and recast that hold him in their restless meshes long after the book is laid aside. The book is a brilliant tour de force by the poet in the contemplation of his own identity and, by so doing, of the secret of self, his own and that of the Other” – Daniel Sloate.

Claude Beausoleil is a Montreal writer who has been extremely active for over thirty years. His work has been published in numerous languages. Guernica published Concrete City: Selected Poems: 1972-1982 in 1983.

Guernica Editions has also published Claude Beausoleil's Concrete City

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