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Dominique Fortier casts his thread

Dominique Fortier casts his thread
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In “Our Lady of All Maybes,” the Quebec poet weaves links between Quebec and France with the grace of a tightrope walker.
Quebec poet Dominique Fortier. (Photomontage Libération/Carl Lessard)

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A secret hides in the book of Quebec poet Dominique Fortier: that of the end of a love. It slips with extreme modesty between the verses, appearing on the page where we least expect it. The recurring motif of the tightrope walker between two kingdoms, which runs through the book, is in the image of this author born in Quebec in 1972 and who publishes, on two continents, novels , translations and essays, children's literature books and, for a rare time, a book of poetry, the only one so far. Notre-Dame de tous les peut-être is therefore the exception.

Dominique Fortier would like to write another book, she confides in the text, but the poetic game is essential. The subject, with its form, fell on her as if. "These pages are not the book I wanted to write but it is the only one I can write, in one night I lost all the other languages, I have only this one left, which I cannot forget because I have not

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