A wondrous handbook to read in complete freedom.
In these new adventures, Charles Sagalane continues his project of setting up little free libraries, open to the unexpected. Who knows what the page can still learn from the landscape? From the boreal vastness to the turquoise waters of the South of France, the poet explores islands he makes his own: Québécois along the St. Lawrence River, Parisian on the Seine, tropical in Guadeloupe, cut through with coves in the Mediterranean. These places, it seems, have been inhabited by our fellow humans for thirty thousand years. The traveling librarian grows attuned to this history and reaches out a friendly hand across the ages. An archipelago takes shape, a personal geography populated by encounters and literary confluences. Human brothers, human sisters—such is the constant address of this joyful book, which happily blurs the line between life and poetry, self-knowledge and knowledge of the other.
