Louise Dupré

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Louise Dupré, born in Sherbrooke in 1949, is a poet, novelist, playwright, and essayist. She studied at the University of Sherbrooke and the Université de Montréal, where she earned a Ph.D. in literature. Her thesis was concerned with the new Quebec women’s poetry. From 1981 to 1984, she was part of the Remue-Ménage collective, where she was responsible for manuscript development. In 1988, she joined the editorial board of the magazine Voix et Images: Littérature québécoise, which she directed from 1995 to 1998.)

The Best Poem Of Louise Dupré

[I am from nowhere...]

I am from nowhere, when the heavens shrink down, of no forest, of no city,
a female sitting in female smallness seeking in a hidden window her face.
In the minding of my death, there, in the precise instant when breathing
quit me, I rock myself with no noise, surprised I am intact now, in the will
of the world, again, offering my name to the gnawing of the sun. Because
it is still day even if the day has died, and I keep watch over the bouquets
of cemeteries. I keep myself to myself, quiet, amongst so many souls who
could not resist.

translated by by Tim Lilburn

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