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Distantly (Paperback)
Nicole Brossard, Sylvain Gallais, Cynthia Hogue
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R445
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A bilingual collection of poems that offers a surreal perspective
of urban experience. This bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard's
lyrical poetry is a sequence of lush, taut cityscapes. Known for
her elliptical and materially grounded poetics, Brossard creates an
intimate series of poems drawn loosely from urban experience. The
poems comprise an evocative distillation of postmodern urban life
with a sharp sense of cultural and gendered histories of violence
and beauty and struggles for survival and intimacy. The poems
capture the emotional and ecological surroundings of each city and
its people. The cities in Brossard's poems feel surreal and in them
dwell survivors of "misfortunes," living in urban landscapes with
their "gleaming debris" and "bridges, ghats, / rivers in a time of
peace and torture." These poems gesture toward a transmuted social
context and toward a quest "to meet the horizon the day after the
horizon."
Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to
finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness and
infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of
Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and
talk - about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and
art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing.
When "Yesterday, at the Hotel Clarendon" appeared in French (as
"Hier"), the media called it the pinnacle of Brossard's remarkable
forty-year literary career. From its intersection of four women
emerges a kind of art installation, a lively read in which life and
death and the vertigo of ruins tangle themselves together to say
something about history and desire and art.
'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.
All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and
cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in
English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private
and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive
dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect
studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice,
and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt
affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn
from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and
timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome
resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and
transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the
world differently. Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière,
Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré,
Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron
Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula
Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert,
Jeanette den Toonder
Text in English & French. Buttressed by a wealth of new,
collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors
of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and
present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations
was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing
Research Collaboratory held at the Canadian Literature Centre,
University of Alberta, and exemplifies the progress of radically
interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and publishing efforts
surrounding Canadian women's writing. Researchers and students
interested in Canadian literature, Quebec literature, womens
writing, literary history, feminist theory, and digital humanities
scholarship should definitely acquaint themselves with this work.
Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Susan Brown, Marie Carriere,
Patricia Demers, Louise Dennys, Cinda Gault, Lucie Hotte, Dean
Irvine, Gary Kelly, Shauna Lancit, Mary McDonald-Rissanen, Lindsey
McMaster, Mary-Jo Romaniuk, Julie Roy, Susan Rudy, Chantal Savoie,
Maite Snauwaert, Rosemary Sullivan, and Sheena Wilson.
'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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