"A correspondent not only tells of stories happening far away — distant in time, space, and experience — but also pursues their own experiences in the larger weave of history. In Correspondent, Bernier-Cormier seeks to answer a vital and impossible question: what can the individual do when crushed by the immense forces of war and violence? He answers by crossing borders and entering his own new language of poetry in this love letter from a son to his father." — Kazim Ali
"How impossible languages are, how they fail to deliver on the promise of connection. Yet, through the deft weaving of multiple voices, the assembling and dismantling of rhythm and pattern, Bernier-Cormier finds a loophole. The poems in Correspondent come together to form a rare reportage, where the as-yet-unspoken becomes audible and signals transmit via other means: dream, song, prayer." — Sheryda Warrener
"During my years as reporter in Moscow, I covered the events Bernier-Cormier explores in this volume. In vivid and beautiful language, he gives voice to the dead and form to history. His images, rooted in childhood recollection, are haunting. This work is at once an homage to family, to journalism, and to the intensity of youthful memories in a foreign place." — Elizabeth Palmer
"The collection revives & conserves what has been forgotten or silenced ... so that its readers can relive, re-see, and remember them." — Canadian Literature
"This is a book of poetic journalism and social justice, where truth sur- mounts deception." — The Fiddlehead
