It’s about the fractured French in “Trouvé Mort,” the poem by Catherine Owen reprinted in the Findings section of No. 64. While aware that Geist and its staff are not responsible for the poem’s content, I’ve been teasing apart the levels of irony and offence in your choosing it for this issue.

Thanks for publishing my letter about the fractured French in your reprint of Catherine Owen’s “Trouvé mort” or “Un Patient est Trouvé Mort: Haikus from the French” (Geist 64). I appreciate seeing the author’s response alongside your own in Geist 65. I give Owen full points for chutzpah. Of special interest is her assertion that the errors in the poem’s French-language citations are entirely attributable to Le Journal de Montréal, which she says is quoted verbatim.