{"product_id":"entre-rive-and-shore-9781773102870","title":"Entre Rive and Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dominique Bernier-Cormier\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Canadian - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Fred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry \u003cbr\u003eFinalist, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize \u003cbr\u003eLonglisted, Nelson Ball Poetry Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I used to think this was a book about a disguise, \u003cbr\u003ebut now I know that it's a book about translation.\" \u003cp\u003eAccording to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison the night before the Acadian Deportation by disguising himself in a dress. In the invigorating, transliterative \u003ci\u003eEntre Rive and Shore\u003c\/i\u003e, Dominique Bernier-Cormier uses his ancestor's escape to ponder what it means to live between two languages. Writing in a blend of English and French that evokes Chiac, \"a living thing, growing gills, a voice from the future, prophetic and clear,\" Bernier-Cormier probes the mutability of language and of translation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA heady mix of English renderings of a single French poem, a Franco-fusion m�lange of reflections on Acadian history and identity, and meditations on the evolution of language and the rapper Young Thug, \u003ci\u003eEntre Rive and Shore\u003c\/i\u003e exhibits \"an eloquence we aren't attuned to.\" The result is protean, an exhilarating collection that reassesses what it means to live between two identities, two worlds, two languages. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Goose Lane Editions","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968573915287,"sku":"9781773102870","price":1390.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781773102870.webp?v=1782918651","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/entre-rive-and-shore-9781773102870","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}