{"id":297,"date":"2007-09-21T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=297"},"modified":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-29T16:01:49","slug":"jacques-poulin-comes-to-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/?p=297","title":{"rendered":"Jacques Poulin comes to the USA&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite writers in the world is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nwpassages.com\/author_profile.asp?au_id=1095\">Jacques Poulin<\/a>. I teach his works here frequently and he is an important part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uvm.edu\/~summer\/course\/?Page=course_CE.php&amp;term=200706&amp;crn=60209\">online course<\/a> here I teach every summer on three Canadian writers: Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Jacques Poulin.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, I was excited to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archipelagobooks.org\">Archipelago Books<\/a>, a wonderful not-for-profit press out of Brooklyn has purchased the US rights to Poulin&#8217;s novel Spring Tides (Les Grandes Mar\u00c3\u00a9es). I am thinking I may well teach that book next semester or in 2008\/09.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/63072\">first US review<\/a> I&#8217;ve seen of that new book has just come out in the New York Sun. It would be great to see Poulin start to garner the attention outside of Qu\u00c3\u00a9bec that I&#8217;ve always believed he deserves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my favourite writers in the world is Jacques Poulin. I teach his works here frequently and he is an important part of the online course here I teach every summer on three Canadian writers: Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, and Jacques Poulin. For that reason, I was excited to see that Archipelago Books, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canadian-literature","category-worldlit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulwmartin.ca\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}