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Daniel Sloate (1931-2009) was a prolific poet, playwright and translator. He was the author of numerous books, including I Is Another and Of Dissonance And Shadows. Sloate attended the University of Western Ontario (where he obtained an B.A. in French and English) and obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught translation at the Translators' School in Paris before taking a position also teaching translation at the Université de Montréal, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

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"The poetic territory here is one of phantom miracles in which writing, radical and free of constraints, allows the poet's vision to embrace without hesitation the dark heart of the world: 'I see way in the distance and my arms extend that far.' " - Benoît Jutras, Voir

"Jean-Marc Desgent's poetic works are among the most brilliantly original and profoundly prophetic examples of contemporary Quebec poetry." - François Paré

"Reading Jean-Marc Desgent is to follow a poet to the far reaches of being. And when one returns, one returns transfigured." - Andrée Proulx

"This is a brilliant work, troubling and cruel. Writing in the first person, Jean-Marc Desgent, presents an 'I' that encompasses in one swoop of desiring, childhood, centuries past and future along with vengeance and tenderness in all their forms. With its profound lucidity, this book carries the world and its pain within its pages. And the tensions of our twentieth centuries." - Daniel Sloate