The colours, the cut-and-paste qualities, the almost childlike impulses or scratched-out words are the work’s most endearing qualities. The imperfections of the drawing, the collage, the handwritten love letter, render it all the more perfect. Quebec has produced two such offerings this spring: two literary creations whose celebrated authors are as different as the scope of their works. But the handcrafted odes of francophone literary legend Dany Laferriére (to Paris) and Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels (to Montreal) remind readers of the written word’s power when put together by hand. Entitled It Lasts Forever, the zine is made up of two pieces written in late April that are essentially prose-poem meditations on the things that make Montreal Montreal rather than some indistinguishable and ever-changing elsewhere.

Source: thestar May 11, 2018 17:03 UTC