Nicole Brossard: 12 books

Shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Translation 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,...

something like wait for me in the braille of scars tonight can i suggest a little punctuation circle half-moon vertical line of astonishment a pause that transforms light and breath  into language and threshold of fire Even as vowels tremble in danger and worldly destruction repeats itself...

Twenty-seven writers in Canada were asked to contribute pieces of original work describing how they see writing today. From Atwood’s opening, through writing from Indigenous writers, the reader is given a sense of how twenty-seven of the country’s finest writers see their world today. With an...

Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism have been lost to us for years. The Blue Books brings

Pour célébrer ses 50 ans de création littéraire; Nicole Brossard pose un regard singulier sur la traduction; ses résonances vibratoires; en explorant diverses approches du texte traduit. Libre; beau et puissant; Et me voici soudain en train de refaire le monde éclate les catégories; formes...

Nominated for a Governor General's Award for Translation Yesterday, on my way back from the museum: my head is full of images of storms. A boundless sea of paintings and photographs. Other storms I build like a backdrop, with sombre and anonymous characters, impossible to identify. I remain...

Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. A play of resonance between pronouns and persons, freely percussive between prose and poetry, and narrating a constellation of questions, White Piano offers readers a 'language that cultivates its own craters of ?re and savoir-vie.'

Fifteen-year-old Mélanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor, chasing fear and desire and the mysterious Angela Parkins, and breaking free from her mother and her mother’s lover in their roadside Mauve Motel. And then we are with Maude L

Invited to a quiet Swiss château by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon. Will the strange intoxication that takes hold of her and her...

Femmes rapaillées témoigne de la diversité et de la richesse de la poésie contemporaine des femmes au Québec. Qu’elles soient d’origines autochtone, québécoise, arabe, haïtienne, etc., ces femmes défrichent les sentiers que la poésie ouvre sans cesse dans le langage et dans la vie réelle....

Mélanie, une adolescente en quête d’absolu, sillonne le désert de l’Arizona pour exorciser la peur et la réalité, espérant échapper au quotidien lent du motel que dirige sa mère, près de Tucson. Sa rencontre avec l’excessive Angela Parkins multipliera les actes de révolte et de pure...

« Si L'amèr a connu autant de succès, c'est que pour les femmes ce texte s'avérait nécessaire : il correspondait à un fondamental besoin de voir, imprimée noir sur blanc, une réflexion politique sur la maternité dans le système patriarcal où la femme, comme mère, se retrouve flouée, ne pouvant devenir sujet dans le champ symbolique. » Extrait de la préface de Louise Dupré