Synopsis
The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade – in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place beyond language. Taken together, they create an audacious new architecture of meaning.
Nicole Brossard, one of the world’s foremost literary innovators, is known for her experiments with language and her groundbreaking treatment of desire and gender. This dextrous translation by the award-winning poets and translators Erin Moure (Little Theatres) and Robert Majzels (Apikoros Sleuth) brings into English, with great verve and sensitivity, Brossard’s remarkable syntax and sensuality.
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About the Author
Poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books and has twice won the Governor General's Award for Poetry. In 2005, she received the prestigious Molson Prize for lifetime achievement. Robert Majzels is a translator and writer of poems, plays, and novels, most recently, Apikoros Sleuth (Mercury Press, 2004). Erin Moure is a poet and translator and her most recent book, Little Theatres, (House of Anansi Press, 2005) was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize.
Review
'Brossard conflates writing with lovemaking – "at the hour of bedsheets or ink" – the poems forming a grammar of desire, like a diagrammed body ... The translation Brossard is obsessed with here is of a different sort, the translation of bodily memories, resurrecting old loves. For Brossard words cover the wounds, '"colours that precede / the iodine of words / torment of punctuation."' – The Believer
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