A tour de force collection of poems based on the work of different artisans including woodturners, healers, potters, weavers, engravers, and loggers.

Born in Luxembourg, Liliane Welch (1937) has lived for thirty-five years in Sackville, NB. A professor of French Studies at Mount Allison University, she is the co-author of Emergence: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud (1973) and Address: Rimbaud Mallarmé Butor (1979). Welch is also the author of two collections of essays, Seismographs (1988) and Frescoes (1998). She is the recepient of the Bressani Prize for Life in Another Language (1992) and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize (1986). In 1998 she was elected to the Institut Grand-Ducal, Luxembourg.

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"A close look at real inhabitants of New Brunswick who are expressers of creative truths, who shape their milieu just as much as it shapes them . . . a new departure for Welch." — H. Bouraoui, Essays on Canadian Writing

"Welch's imagery has the lean, clear quality of winter sunlight, a sense of the stones, the hills and the motion of the great tides." — Leland Johnson, Attention Please

"Her poems are reflective and evocative . . . they are the voice of a poet attuned to the essential in man's historical, political, and natural self." — Anne Fizzard, Argosy Weekly