To Live and Die in Scoudouc

First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical, referentially modern, and steeped in the rhythms and forms that had emerged from the Americas, Europe, and India.

Now, more than 40 years later, Hermé né gilde Chiasson is considered to be the father of Acadian modernism, and Mourir à Scoudouc is widely regarded as one...