The Major Verbs

By Pierre Nepveu

Pierre Nepveu is unique among French Quebec poets for having forged a voice at once unadorned, sensuous, and adventurous, and this new collection is a masterwork consisting of three sequences. The first focuses on an immigrant night cleaner glimpsed on a subway; the second, a riff on a group of stones on a table; and the final sequence concerns the poet's parents and their deaths. The book closes with a long meditative poem written in the American southwest. In the original French, this collection was nominated for a Governor General's Award for Poetry in 2010.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550653393
• ISBN13: 9781550653397
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Signal Editions
• Length: 92 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.3"