Description The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Qu b cois poet Pierre Nepveu began more than four decades ago.
Through a sequence of four prose poems, his anonymous protagonist walks from the heart of present-day Montreal into its southwestern margins, where the metropolis began centuries ago and which now lays out its memories on the young grass.
Questioning his sense of belonging, social unease and mortality as he walks, and following a shadowy voice that neither sings nor speaks, Nepveu transports readers across wide spans of history, geography, metaphysics and speculation.
About the Author Pierre Nepveu is a critic, an essayist, a poet, and a teacher in the French studies department at the University of Montreal.
He is the author of Mirabel and among other prizes has won the Governor General's Award five times in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction.
Donald Winkler is a filmmaker and translator.
He won the Governor General's Literary Award for Translation three times.
Vehicule Press The hardness of matter and water, paperback/pierre nepveu
