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The Graph of Roads: Selected Poems 1968-1999
Gilles Cyr, Patrick Williamson (Translator), Gerald Mangan (Translator), Patrick Borna (Translator) and Yann Lovelock (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Fall 2008
119 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781550712377
ISBN10: 1550712373
English
Translated from the French
$12.00 Canada, $12.00 US
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Full of astute observations and subtle reflections, this collection explores the nature of seeing. Rather than hollowly exploiting what is seen, the author struggles to achieve wholeness by making vital connections between sight, speech, and their origins.
Though Gilles Cyr's work is rooted in the act of seeing, it is not content merely to remain with what is seen; it is not nature poetry, but goes on to encompass the nature of seeing. While nature poetry exploits its material, Gilles Cyr's expresses wholeness, it makes the necessary connection between what is seen and what is seeing. Ultimately sight manifests itself, at the human level, in speech, and that is where the poetry comes from. Cyr, however, sees it as his job to send us back to where it all began.
Yann Lovelock
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