Tuesday, December 28, 2010

News at Eleven: The poetic giants of the Acadian renaissance,

such as Gérald LeBlanc and Herménégilde Chiasson, have also been prodigious readers across linguistic traditions, finding room in their art for a wealth of cultural references and forging a kind of Franco-American aesthetic not unlike that exhibited by New England novelist and poet Jack Kerouac.

It's this modern cross-cultural space that the poems of Thomas Scott inhabit--a landscape of vantage and experience that could be anglophone or francophone.

from Telegraph-Journal: How Things Got Like This: Poems/Comment On en Est Arrive La: Poemes

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