Marc-Antoine K. Phaneuf, Mauvaises Herbes
Publication : december, 2023
Format : 140 x 105 mm ; 56 pages
ISBN : 978-2-9814330-7-7
Print run : 300 copies, 30 of which are numbered, including a cutout.
Language : French
Mauvaises herbes is an alphabetical list of unwanted plants. A poetic lexicon of Quebec flora, where composite and figurative terms accumulate in an incessant enumeration.
From Absinthe du pays to Willie puant, the text is built as a poetic quest in migration, whose spread wavers between technical and vernacular names, numerous momentary anaphoras, new expressions and even potential insults, if we are to believe the climax of the work. A raw poem by its nature, Mauvaises herbes is a nod to the works of Brother Marie-Victorin, Paul-Marie Lapointe and Claude Gauvreau.
A literary Ready-made, Mauvaises herbes is a meticulous and summary rewriting of the work Noms des pauvres herbes du Québec, written by the agronomist Maurice Ferron and the agronomist-botanist Richard Cayouette, whose third edition, revised and expanded, was published by Agriculture Québec in 1975.
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