Poetry
Musocktail
Not translated into English
Hédi Bouraoui · 1966
Synopsis
Hédi Bouraoui's first collection of poems, in French, published in the United States in 1966 in a very short form, fewer than fifty pages, the year he began teaching in Toronto. Reissued in Canada in 2016, it opens, according to that edition, with verses saying that to smile is to caress souls.
Context
The collection appeared in 1966 at Wheaton, Illinois, from Tower Publications, in a volume of forty-seven pages. Its author, born in Sfax, joined the teaching staff of York University in Toronto the same year, to teach French and English literatures. The Centre Canada-Méditerranée press, which he had founded at York, published a reissue in 2016, held in the university's digital repository.
Who it is for
A first collection, brief and rare; the 2016 reissue makes it possible to read it outside libraries.
Prizes and reception
Its author's first book, reissued in Toronto in 2016, fifty years after its American publication.