entre rive and shore, Dominique bernier-cormier

Gooselane, 2023

I want to shove this book about living between languages in every poetry lover's hand, imploring: Here, here, lis ça! “But I don't know French!” they might answer. Beautiful. They'll live in the gaps, the ones the text creates, the ones created in the reading—such a joyfully collaborative experience. For those of us in that bilingual world, what a privilege to see the process/pain/pleasure of that "constant translation of oneself" that Bernier-Cormier explores in poems, progressive translations, notes, letters, essays, and visual poems. Tiens, read this!

—Dominik Parisien, Hamilton