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Marie Uguay; Translated by Jennifer Moxley; Preface by Jennifer Moxley
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'Pleasure,' Jennifer Moxley writes in her introduction to this
volume, 'is the word that first comes to mind at the mention of
Nicole Brossard's poetry.' This volume provides English-language
readers with an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard,
poet, novelist, and essayist, who is widely recognized in her
native Quebec and throughout the French-speaking world as one of
the greatest writers of her generation. Brossard's poetry is rooted
in her investigations of language, her abiding commitment to a
feminist consciousness, and her capacity for renewing meaning as a
virtual space of desire. The reader enters a poetic world in which
the aesthetic is joined with the political, and the meaning of both
is enriched in the process. The selections in this volume include
translations of some of Brossard's best-known works - "Lovhers",
"Ultra Sounds", 'Museum of Bone and Water", "Notebook of Roses and
Civilization" - along with short prose works, an interview with
Brossard, and a bibliography of works in French and English, and
constitute the most substantial English-language sampling published
to date of one of Canada's greatest living poets.
"Life Policy" - "Lit by the light of one lamp, with clarinet
backdrop and ashtray, you pitch safety and comfortable Futures.
Your neighborhood shows as you trace the map, ruffle the bills and
conjure up scarcity. Everybody's doing it, you say, Hopeful. Take
your big dreams, I say through the back door, no one here can sing
fate or pick up that dime, anymore. We left crossroads back there
with compromise, one nation two hundred miseries and all that
commotion. Your dreams are just words like table salt. Me I know
this year's moment will be 2 a.m., my life savings and one train
ticket down the fault line."
'Pleasure,' Jennifer Moxley writes in her introduction to this
volume, 'is the word that first comes to mind at the mention of
Nicole Brossard's poetry.' This volume provides English-language
readers with an overview of the life and work of Nicole Brossard,
poet, novelist, and essayist, who is widely recognized in her
native Quebec and throughout the French-speaking world as one of
the greatest writers of her generation. Brossard's poetry is rooted
in her investigations of language, her abiding commitment to a
feminist consciousness, and her capacity for renewing meaning as a
virtual space of desire. The reader enters a poetic world in which
the aesthetic is joined with the political, and the meaning of both
is enriched in the process. The selections in this volume include
translations of some of Brossard's best-known works - "Lovhers",
"Ultra Sounds", "Museum of Bone and Water", "Notebook of Roses and
Civilization" - along with short prose works, an interview with
Brossard, and a bibliography of works in French and English, and
constitute the most substantial English-language sampling published
to date of one of Canada's greatest living poets.
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