The Grand Hotel of Foreigners

Claude Beausoleil

Translated by George Morrissette, Jed English

Beausoleil invites the reader on a voyage which is as much an interior one as a physical one, making the reader a traveller into his own mysteries as he questions the nature of solitude, wandering, the distance which forms and grows between people, and writing. >>

Vetiver

Joël Des Rosiers

Translated by Hugh Hazelton

Vetiver, a grass originally from the Indies, has overgrown the island of Haiti. The plant in exile becomes a symbol for the emigré in this English translation of Des Rosiers' prize-winning poetry. >>