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Twentieth Centuries
Jean-Marc Desgent and Daniel Sloate (Translator)
Guernica Editions, Fall 2008
64 pages
Trade Paperback
ISBN13: 9781550712940
ISBN10: 1550712942
English
Translated from the French
$12.00 Canada, $12.00 US
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Encompassing a range of emotions - tenderness, vengeance, desire, cruelty - this visionary poetry collection written in the first person traverses the phantom miracles and peers into the dark heart of the world.
This is a brilliant work, troubling and cruel. Writing in the first person, Jean-Marc Desgent, presents an "I" that encompasses in one swoop of desiring, childhood, centuries past and future along with vengeance and tenderness in all their forms. With its profound lucidity, this book carries the world and its pain within its pages. And the tensions of our twentieth centuries.
Daniel Sloate
The poetic territory here is one of phantom miracles in which writing, radical and free of constraints, allows the poet's vision to embrace without hesitation the dark heart of the world: "I see way in the distance and my arms extend that far."
Benoît Jutras, Voir
Jean-Marc Desgent's poetic works are among the most brilliantly original and profoundly prophetic examples of contemporary Quebec poetry.
François Paré
Reading Jean-Marc Desgent is to follow a poet to the far reaches of being. And when one returns, one returns transfigured.
Andrée Proulx
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