If This Were Death

In If This Were Death, Paul Chanel Malenfant mourns the loss of a beloved woman by evoking the privileged moments of a life - the grace of a landscape or painting, the emotion of things seen, windows open onto the world - as a ceremonial and consoling leave-taking. A writer, critic and professor at the Université du Quebec à Rimouski, Paul Chanel Malenfant has published over fifteen collectionsof poetry and two novels, as well as a book and numerous articles on poetry. His work has received several awards. If This Were Death is a translation of his Governor General's Award-winning collection, Des ombres portées (Noroît, 2000). Fleuves (Noroît, 1997) won the Prix Alain-Grandbois of the Académie des Lettres du Québec and the Grand Prix of the Festival international de la poésie.Malenfant, Paul Chanel is the author of 'If This Were Death', published 2009 under ISBN 9781550712711 and ISBN 1550712713.