Life in Another Language

Louise E. Allin, a poet and short-story writer, is also an English instructor at Cambrian College.

Liliane Welch harnesses the prose poem into an eclectic medium that
speaks with many purposes. These brief, page-long episodes tell dramatic
tales about diverse experiences, such as common domestic frustration, or
range across the ancient cities of Europe to evoke ghosts of Rimbaud or
Dante. Passions do not change with the centuries, and Welch is at home
describing frescoes in Orvieto or inhaling clouds of steam in a
sugar-house near the Trans-Canada highway. An expert guide in her
language and analysis, she ushers the traveler around the world in a
celebration of the human spirit. The volume is addictive, for each entry
carries the reader into a new experience satisfying in itself yet
beckoning further into worlds yet unseen.