Free Rein

A collection of seminal essays that includes addresses, manifestoes, prefaces, exhibition pamphlets, and theoretical, polemical, and lyrical essays. It argues for the autonomy of art and poetry and condemns the subservience to 'revolutionary' aims exemplified by socialist realism.

Michel Parmentier is a professor of French at Bishop's University, Quebec. He is the author of "Mise au point" and "Regards contemporains: Textes d'actualite quebecoise". He is coauthor with Jacqueline d'Amboise of "Second Regards, Recits recents", and "Nouvelles nouvelles: Fictions du Quebec contemporain". Jacqueline d'Amboise is an independent poet and translator. She is the author of "Mother Myths", a book of poems.