Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader: A Nicole Brossard Reader

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Nicole Brossard won the 2019 Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust, placing her among such illustrious company as Seamus Heaney, Adrienne Rich, and Tomas Transtroemer. This isn't a regular anthology but instead a carefully shaped curation of Brossard's work alongside interviews, lectures, ephemera, and other documents that illuminate both her writings and their context within the last half-century of feminist work.

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"Her language moves between sensuality and deconstructionism in a luscious interplay between the abstract and the corporeal. [...] The new translations in Selections are a provocative delight." Foreword Reviews

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Two-time Governor Generals Award winner for her poetry, Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and essays since 1965. She has co-founded and co-directed the literary magazine La Barre du Jour (1965-1975), co-directed the film Some American Feminists (1976), and co-edited the acclaimed Anthologie de la posie des femmes au Qubec (1991 and 2003). Her work has been widely translated into English and Spanish and is also available in many other languages. Nicole has won numerous awards, including winning the Trois-Rivires International Poetry Festival Grand Prix Qubecor in 1989 and 1999, the Prix Athanase-David in 1991, and the the first Violet Prize awarded by the Blue Metropolis Festival in 2018. One of her novels, Mauve Desert, has been presented as a multidisciplinary creation in 2018 and is slated for an opera adaptation in 2020-21. She is an officer of the Order of Canada, chevalire of the National Order of Quebec, and a member of lAcadmie des lettres du Qubec. Nicole currently lives in Montreal. Sina Queyras is the author of My Ariel, MxT, Expressway, and LemonHound, all from Coach House Books. They were born on land belonging to the Nisichawayasihk Cree Nation and live and teach in Tiohti:ke (Montral). Genevive Robichaud is the author of Exit Text (Anstruther Press, 2016), a nano-essay on the errant and secret life of ideas. Her research focuses on twentieth- and twenty-first-century writings with an emphasis on translation as the poetry of thought still to come. She holds a PhD in English literature from the Universit de Montral. Genevieve currently lives in Montreal. Erin Wunker lives, works, and teaches in Kjipuktuk (Halifax, Nova Scotia). She is the author of Notes from a Feminist Killjoy: Essays on Everyday Life.