{"product_id":"entre-rive-and-shore-dominique-bernier-cormier-9781773102870","title":"Entre Rive and Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted, Dorothy Livesay 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駘ange 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominique Bernier-Cormier\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1773102877\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781773102870\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Goose Lane Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/27\/2023","brand":"Dominique Bernier-Cormier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44077757890815,"sku":"9781773102870","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_da461d74-0deb-41d0-a2f0-7bdc23011f42.jpg?v=1685471623","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/entre-rive-and-shore-dominique-bernier-cormier-9781773102870","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}