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For thirty years, Alain-G. Gagnon has been one of the world's leading experts on federalism and multinational democracies. In Minority Nations in the Age of Uncertainty, he presents an articulate and accessible introduction to the ways in which minority nations have begun to empower themselves in a global environment that is increasingly hostile to national minorities.

Comparing conditions in Quebec, Catalonia, and Scotland, Gagnon offers six interrelated essays on national minorities, processes of accommodation, and autonomy and self-determination within a modern democratic...

Focused deeply on a language to navigate the outward space of the body, the heart of these poems beats between want and its relief, no matter how briefly it's obtained. Gagnon's poems forage, find their bearings, then sing out of the body's reorientation in a territory it is continuously desiring to understand, they gallop "as a flame / does, against / the turbulence / of convictions."

Pam Rehm

These poems are fluent in the language of pool, sky, bath, afternoon, body, earth--the way things pass into and out of the mind, the way a bird's song can become: "the slow ancient call...

This autobiographical account focuses on a ten year span of the author's life, during which he experienced a painful series of traumatic events. Gagnon, a psychotherapist, suffered numerous tragedies including loss of a limb, cancer, death of a loved one, and various other ailments. Throughout all of these physical and emotional losses and trials, the author served others as a psychotherapist. Throughout these difficult experiences, the author learned invaluable lessons from suffering and brought them into the consultation room along with his professional training.

This autobiographical account focuses on a ten year span of the author's life, during which he experienced a painful series of traumatic events. Gagnon, a psychotherapist, suffered numerous tragedies including loss of a limb, cancer, death of a loved one, and various other ailments. Throughout all of these physical and emotional losses and trials, the author served others as a psychotherapist. Throughout these difficult experiences, the author learned invaluable lessons from suffering and brought them into the consultation room along with his professional training.