Nicholas Giguère practices conceptual literature. Unlike many visual artists, however, it is not to serve an idea, as strong as it is, that he writes. Through the other, the novelist-poet reveals everything, his fantasies, his desires, his joys and his disillusions. He finds himself in otherness.
He could not find a better poetic melting pot, vast and arborescent, than in the life and work of David Bowie. This communion gives a very long collection that can be opened to almost any page in order to be surprised, amused, touched, shaken. We find Bowie, of course, albums Space Oddity To Scary monsters, but above all the curious, mischievous and provocative author of Tails and Offers.
Understanding the world of the writer fascinates. She goes through popular culture as much as the most cutting-edge, from James Bond and Jojo Savard to David Lynch, Talking Heads and Denis Diderot. And these are not free references in this phosphorescent universe. The life of the poet inhabits each of the verses, in flesh and blood, with its unforeseen events, even if that seems foolish.
Because the body exults most of the time, it strives and exhausts itself. The poet loves and hates somewhere between rock and genocide. He assumes all the contrasts, all the failures and the victories. The poems are admirably short, but each just as explosive as the next.
In such a long journey, we will forgive the facilities of some titles since with his superb, Nicholas Giguère knows how to constantly relaunch his quest.
“I will be the hope / to launch the planet / against a shining meteorite / I will be the void created / by the pangs / of freedom”.
Freak Out in a Moonage Daydream
Nicholas giguere
The Quartanier
312 pages