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Governor General's Literary Award 2009

René Lapierre
Traité de physique

  Poetry French-Language

René Lapierre

 

René Lapierre, Saint-Antoine-sur-Richelieu (Quebec), Traité de physique.
(Les Herbes rouges; distributed by Diffusion Dimédia) (ISBN 978-2-89419-280-1)

The poetry in this collection accords a sense of observation to the scientific mind and abolishes the boundary between genres. The emotional charge of memory combines with sumptuous descriptions of landscapes and the things of the world. In this treatise on physics, a veritable poetic art, he formulates fundamental questions on the human condition.