Archives are often depicted as musty repositories, museum cellars, warehouses shoring up retaining walls against forgetfulness and the inevitable erosions of time. Objects deposited in the archives are tucked away for safekeeping. But Louise Warren? archives are not file boxes or document lockers. They are not relegated to closed cabinets in locked rooms. They are where writing goes and what writing does.

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Born in Montreal, poet and essayist Louise Warren has published more than twenty-five books, among these the collection Anthologie du prsent (les ditions du passage, 2012). Her essays offer a reflection on the arts and the creative process, and her body of work includes many artists?books. She participates regularly in international conferences and festivals and has been the recipient of numerous prizes and honours. Poet and translator Karen McPherson? poems and translations have appeared in a number of literary journals and anthologies. A chapbook of her poetry, Sketching Elise, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2012.

Louise Warren lives not far from the lake that nourishes her work. That silence like an overturned bowl. The bluish luminosity of a certain dawn. The particular sound of footsteps crossing the ice. Each time I open this book (Objets du monde), I step outside myself in order to enter the world of poetic reflection. “Dany Laferrire.