Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard is a poet, novelist, and essayist and the author of more than thirty books. She is a major voice in French-language avant-garde poetry and one of Canada's greatest living writers. Jennifer Moxley is a poet, translator, and editor, and the author of many books including Often Capital.

Contents Introduction Key to Translators Texts The Echo Moves Beautiful (1968) from Logical Suite (1970) everything gels white mutual attractions between the lines the liquid slides afterward it's so little it's ony initial and doesn't stop being so to act and tend again and without cease there is the palpable night shifts feverish suspension of the act Subordinating Words The White Centre (1970) from Daydream Mechanics (1974--1980) Reverse{hrs}/{hrs}Drift A Rod for a Handsome Price The Part for the Whole (1975) from Lovhers (1980--1986) (4): Lovhers/write July the Sea The Barbizon Hotel for Women from Double Impression (1984) The Marginal Way from Aviva (excerpts, 1985, 2008) from To Every Gaze (1989) Cities by the Touch If Yes Seismal Obscure Languages (1992) Vertigo of the Proscenium (1997) from Installations (1989-2) Passage Eternity Taboo Color Separation Margin Tongue Shadow Installation Contemporary Tympanum Generation Mores Downtown Sweep Encore Gesture Rai Matter Harmonious Still Maneuvering (1990) Ultrasounds (1992) from Museum of Bone and Water (1999--2003) Museum of Bone and Water Typhoon Thrum The Throat of Lee Miller Shadow: Soft et Soif (excerpts from Ardor, 2003) from Notebook of Roses and Civilization (2003--2007) while caresses draw us close the color of tears at the bottom whatever the month or wound to the dawn add i am in a time blue and easy Precautions Suggestions Heavy-Hearted Smooth Horizon of the Verb Love Rustling and Punctuation Every Ardor It's Lively Soft Link 3 from Ardor (2008) all thirsts are hollows of light one calls noise of beauty Nape 9 Nape 10 Nape 12 from After the Words (2007) Documents Poetic Politics (1990) I am a woman of the present (1999) Process of a Yes Its Energy in Progress (1993) Why Do You Write in French? (2) Interview with Nicole Brossard by Lynne Huffer (1993) Catalog of Works Credits