How did Gérald Leblanc become a poet? The answer can be found in his poetic works. Two accounts might prove helpful. During his childhood, the poet gained access to a kind of universal equivalence which he later called “Acadie” clearly another name for poetry. This led to a fresh view of language as a key to analogy rather than a system of differences. This experience was provided by an intimate encounter with time and space. Thus the poem is encountered its ideal form, as being eternal. An alternative story shows the poet as a worker, listening patiently to the mumblings of the town, constructing his self-portrait out of things found along the way. He claims a political meaning and lives in a world of ordinary prose, but can only be understood through a poetic reading. Both pictures are equally true.