Aria de laine
Subtitle: poèmes découpés dans Maria Chapdelaine
By: par Meb
Edition: Première édition.
Publisher: Moult éditions
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: fre
ISBN-13: 9782924039175
Subjects: French-Canadian poetry; Artists' books; Poésie canadienne-française; Livres d'artistes
Description: Aria de laine is a series of poems by subtraction (Blackout Poetry) cut out in the novel Maria Chapdelaine by Louis Hémon (now in the public domain).  For six months, she cut one fragment per page, to the end of the book. She then assembled them to form twenty poems, which describe an enigmatic, somewhat surreal world where trees speak and men melt near the stove. In her poems Meb frequently addresses the banal, the everyday and the interior. She prefers short forms that often obey visual or formal constraints, hidden or revealed, in which the container generates the content (symbolic metric, acrostic, mesostic, blackout poetry). She likes to use simple words in unexpected combinations, absurd or even surrealistic.
Notes: The twenty poems of the collection consist of the words taken from the facsimiles of the work Maria Chapdelaine.