Conversations

The images flash by, one after the other, and intuition supplies the connections. For a year, Herménégilde Chiasson captured fragments of conversation, and he compressed and polished them into sentences for two speakers, He and She. Numbering these utterances from one to 999, Chiasson left 1000 blank, mute testimony to the incompleteness of human communication.

About the author

Herménégilde Chiasson is one of Canada's most accomplished writer-artists. He is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, over 30 plays, and several collections of essays. A multi-disciplinary artist, he has received numerous awards for his work, including the Governor General's Award for poetry, the Molson Prize, le prix France-Acadie, le Grand prix de la francophonie canadienne, the prestigious Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Prix littéraire Antonine-Maillet-Acadie Vie. From 2003 to 2009, he served as Lieutenant Governor of New Brunswick.

Product details

• Authors: Hermenegilde Chiasson, Herménégilde Chiasson
• Assisted by: Fred Cogswell (Translation), Jo-Anne Elder (Translation)
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2001
• EAN: 9780864923196
• ISBN: 978-0-86492-319-6
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 216 mm x 140 mm x 10 mm
• Weight: 184 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques