Nicole Brossard
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an urban image from the eighties
when we hung out at Chez Madam Arthur
and at the back of the room
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towns with their ancient piles of misfortune
wavering
between memory and floods of virtual fury
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towns with the word coral
in order to observe from inside
the shadow of veins
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so many received ideas like a chasm
in my muscles
someone says very close it's you but it's us
thinking about bridges, ghats,
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no graveyards actually only the dead
words to not say, no given names, no one's name
no misfortune yet, little steps that ice over
each year I walk through a new town
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at the hour of brief morning desires
a drop of water and its light
later to counter the dust
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(from her to ravish meaning ravine On the other side
artifice slumbers in the green. The shadow follows hour
by hour hollow and gloomy and which call me forth)
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Nicole Brossard Biography
Quebecois avant-garde poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard was born in Montreal, Canada, and educated at the Collège Marguerite Bourgeoys and the Université de Montréal. Brossard’s work explores feminism, desire, and their connection to the structure and flexibility of language. Believer reviewer Kate Zambreno has praised Brossard’s “lyrical descriptions of lesbian desire coupled with a continued meditation on language. Brossard conflates writing with lovemaking […] the poems forming a grammar of desire, like a diagrammed body.” Brossard has published more than 30 books. Her poetry collections include Nicole Brossard: Selections (2010, translated by Jennifer Moxley); Notebook of Roses and Civilization (2006, translated by Robert Majzels and Erin Mouré), which was shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize; and Installations (1989, translated by Robert Majzels and Erin Mouré). She is also the author of numerous novels, including Mauve Desert (1987, translated by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood) and Lovhers (1986, translated by Barbara Godard). The editor of the anthology The Story So Far: Les Strategies du reel (1979), Brossard co-founded the Quebec literary journals La Barre du Jour and La Nouvelle Barre du Jour. Her honors include the Canada Council’s Molson Prize, the Prix Athanase-David and two awards for poetry from the Governor General. She lives in Montreal and is a member of L’Académie des Lettres du Québec.)
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Smooth Horizon of the Verb Love
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an urban image from the eighties
when we hung out at Chez Madam Arthur
and at the back of the room
women wrapped their arms around
nights of ink and dawn
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calendar of murmurs
vague caresses about the planet and its water
we could have confused words
but there were doors open
confetti in the midst of darkness
gentle ways
to swoon in a corner with she who
put her tongue in my mouth
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focus on yes, on the woman's
eyelids
caress not silence not word
focus beyond. Hold me back
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