Although Madeleine Gagnon's work is firmly rooted in North American mythology, history, and culture, she has published significant works dealing with the situation of women in war-torn countries and the impact of prolonged suffering on people's minds and spirits. In Stone Dream Gagnon takes us on the ultimate trip a poet can offer: the vast journey through our collective unconscious to produce the living poem, the dream of stone that so tantalized and provoked Baudelaire.