The collected poetry, covering a 50-year span from 1970 to 2020, of one
of Canada's most influential writers, literary critics and publishers.
His work has been described as a multidimensional oeuvre that includes
autobiography, politics, the quotidian, myth, tragedy and humor. And
D'Alfonso himself has been called a philosopher who puts on the mask of
the poet in order to better grasp the ambiguities of our world.