Nicolas Tardy is an experimental poet working to upend language. He has published several collections, including Le Qu‚bec Livre, Avant L'Arriv‚e (Contre-pied), and Un Homme Tout Juste Vivant/Pays de Merveilles (A Man Barely Alive/Wonderland) with Editions de l'Attente, all of which are collected in this, his first work to appear in English.