A photograph of an immense tree opens the fourth and most recent collection of poems in Innu-aimun and French by Joséphine Bacon, Kau minuat. One more time (Memory of inkwell). “I chose my heart / Its beat / Becomes music / My woman’s back / Lifts the sacred tree / And returns to its roots,” writes the woman from Pessamit, on the North Shore. Through the pages, the 76-year-old takes us forward with her in the woods through injuries and seasons, until she recovers. A poet at the top of her art who, with just a few words, manages to touch the reader’s heart.
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