Ring of Dust by Louise Marois
A poetry collection exploring memory, identity and reconciliation
In Ring of Dust, veteran Quebec poet Louise Marois delights in poetic feints, temporal leaps, asides, tangents, sleights of hand, call-backs and echoes. This ambitious collection of sequences populates plural dialogues between then and now, family and entourage, lover and nature, mother and death, work-person and artist, fables and confidences, limits and new reaches, home and escape, city and field, queer life and a blood red world. It's a proposition that enters the mess of memory in hopes of reconciling, one disharmony at a time, the many voices who inhabit what keepsakes remain. This book is past and present at war with each other; it's also the future emerging from the page-by-page bout, all born anew in an exuberant translation by D.M. Bradford.
(From Brick Books)
Ring of Dust is available in April 2025.
Louise Marois is a Montreal-based writer and artist. Her debut poetry collection La peau des yeux won the Jacqueline-Déry-Mochon prize, and she has been a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award twice.