BY STEVEN W. BEATTIE
Herménégilde Chiasson’s 1974 debut collection was “sort of a political statement”
“I’VE ALWAYS FELT that in society there are three main fields: culture, politics, and economy”, says Herménégilde Chiasson, the unofficial poet laureate of the region in eastern Canada known as Acadia. “Culture is at the beginning because all revolutions start by being cultural.”