The Madeleine Poems

Ann Lauterbach, the highly esteemed poet who selected Paul Legault''s manuscript for the Omnidawn Poetry Prize, explains that in these poems, ?History is here, in uneasy tangents; landscape is here, lonely in its names; luminous images are here but they are not pictures; music is here in a spare, phrasal pacing? Here, in The Madeleine Poems, modernity''s abandonment becomes a bare harbor into which sail vessels carrying unexpected cargo.? In hauntingly beautiful lyricism, and with a lightness that conveys the most weighty of subjects, Legault offers a dynamically charged vision of the real as he perceives its volatile, constantly shifting valences. See more