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Poetry General

Blind Painting

by (author) Robert Melancon

translated by Philip Stratford

Publisher
Vehicule Press
Initial publish date
Jan 1985
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919890671
    Publish Date
    Jan 1985
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

This book is based on a revised version of Peinture aveugle which won the Governor General's Award in 1979.

About the authors

Born in Montreal in 1947, Robert Melançon studied at the Université de Montréal and in Tours where he wrote his doctorate on French baroque poetry. He has published three books of poems: Inscriptions (1987), Peinture aveugle which won the Governor General's Award in 1979, and Territoire (1981). This book is based on a revised version of Peinture aveugle.

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Philip Stratford (1927-1999) was a poet, a pioneer translator of Canadian literature and a professor emeritus of English at the Université de Montréal.

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