Graffiti: New Poems in Translation

Arguably the best poetic graffiti around o filled with edginess, impulsive spontaneity, and the transcendent artistis desire to leave a mark on life.

Critical Comment

iThe reader may question if itis an eternity, posthumous as a religion experience, or a secular non-death.... Breathe deeply of the rarefied air.... Iim uplifted.i

o Prairie Fire 2003

iIn metaphor there is an implicit comparison, a higher form by which presence in this world is made manifest through language. Pierre DesRuisseaux o practises that ellipse of metaphor in which I like to see the primal symbol, polished by the poet to a glittering point of excellence.... Pierre DesRuisseauxis work abounds in such triumphs.

No one now dares to talk seriously of the universe.... It is by trusting to languageonot childish language, but the language of childhoodoand to the original state of the word that the poet intends to lay the foundation of his peaceable kingdom and restore the universe, giving it the appropriate form and rhythm for the truths he has to say, and, with convincing discipline, first capturing the readeris attention, then inspiring fervour.i

o Marc Vaillancourt