In La condition urbaine, Olivier Mongin considers a poet’s words to be the primary language in defining the empirical experience within a city. The body as a canalizing vessel for urban energy then becomes one of the focal points of Mongin’s essay. The most prominent exemplification of a poet’s work as a channel for urban identity in Acadian literature remains the systemized cartography of Gerald Leblanc’s Moncton. Choosing to depict an individualized parcours within a minority’s collective identity, Leblanc multiplies the textual paths to Acadia’s continental belonging, and refutes restrictive and constrictive national narratives through an unconventional urban jubilation.