"Entrails is a collection of 26 dramatic objects. (...) Nothing quite like them can be found anywhere else in Canadian literature, French or English. They deliberately affront every convention of the stage, showing us a world of intransigent fantasy, symbolic and mysterious, funny at times, often horrific, always disturbing. They were written between 1944 and 1946 in a Montreal not at all ready for them, by a poet who was nineteen years old when he began." (Ray Ellenwood in the introduction to Entrails).

« THE GIRL : (She floats horizontally in the light of the moon, then vertically.) […] I watch a movie: my childhood marches past in school parade. | I hear the trumpets and the thunder of the age. | The town hall tower crumbles with a roar and the city's dying fly above the ruins with their arms spread wide encouraged by the rattling of their bones. […] »