Ex Nihilo

A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada's most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself, shared in dialogue between two poets, as they explore Novalis' definition of poetry as "the truly absolute real." The poetic act is world—changing, the agglomeration of atoms as they fall through space — a sort of "elective affinity", or state of grace — to constitute Being. If Lao Tzu remin...