Thoughts on culture, education, and having been a Canadian in the US
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Jacques Poulin comes to the USA…

by pwm

One of my favourite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin. I teach his works here frequently and he is an important part of the online course here I teach every summer on three Canadian writers: Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Jacques Poulin.

For that reason, I was excited to see that Archipelago Books, a wonderful not-for-profit press out of Brooklyn has purchased the US rights to Poulin’s novel Spring Tides (Les Grandes Marées). I am thinking I may well teach that book next semester or in 2008/09.

The first US review I’ve seen of that new book has just come out in the New York Sun. It would be great to see Poulin start to garner the attention outside of Québec that I’ve always believed he deserves.