{"id":1906,"date":"2024-10-25T14:20:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2024-10-25T14:20:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T21:20:51","slug":"the-canadian-poet-albert-lozeau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2024\/10\/25\/the-canadian-poet-albert-lozeau\/","title":{"rendered":"The Canadian Poet Albert Lozeau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian poet\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Albert_Lozeau\">Albert Lozeau<\/a>, who died a century ago on this date lived a life too short and painful to have rivaled the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/%C3%89mile_Nelligan\">\u00c9mile Nelligan<\/a> (1879-1941), who has been often likened to Arthur Rimbaud and who bore sufferings of his own. I was delighted in 1987 when the Sherbrooke-based poetry review asked me to translate two of his poems. The first, above, was renewing itself in my mind as I flew back to Ottawa for the first time in almost five years, in the autumn of 2014.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was late afternoon and the sun had slipped behind a veil of cirrus off to the west. As the little Embraer cut a slow arc east, there was a splendid view of the confluence of the Rideau River and, on the opposite shore in Qu\u00e9bec, the Gatineau, both emptying into the Ottawa itself. It was a week too early for most leaves to turn, but a few\u00a0trees below were touched with scarlet. For me, these sere tokens of memory were enough to evoke realms of blazing experience left behind, though the autumn&#8217;s full radiance was yet to come.<\/p>\n<p>The French is available if you Duckduck &#8220;Erable rouge&#8221; + Lozeau.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Bonne St-Jean \u00e0 toutes et tous. <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Salvia <a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2605\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2605<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2635\">https:\/\/alteritas.net\/GXL\/?p=2635<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Canadian poet\u00a0Albert Lozeau, who died a century ago on this date lived a life too short and painful to have rivaled the great \u00c9mile Nelligan (1879-1941), who has been often likened to Arthur Rimbaud and who bore sufferings of his own. I was delighted in 1987 when the Sherbrooke-based poetry review asked me to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/2024\/10\/25\/the-canadian-poet-albert-lozeau\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Canadian Poet Albert Lozeau&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1907,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions\/1907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alteritas.net\/alteritas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}