Daniel Sloate (1931-2009) was a prolific poet, playwright and translator. He was the author of numerous books, including I is Another and Of Dissonance and Shadows. Sloate attended the University of Western Ontario (where he obtained an B.A. in French and English) and obtained a doctorate in French literature from the Sorbonne. He taught translation at the Translators' School in Paris before taking a position also teaching translation at the Université de Montréal, where he remained until his retirement in 1995.

"The collected poems in this book include many of my earliest and latest texts, some going back to the late 1950s and the most recent to the end of the last century. They constitute a mood map of sentiments, discarded personae, indelible moments and lives lived with passion and intensity. The book can he read like a poetic journal, a record of fears, love, darkness and light." -- Daniel Sloate.