Ardour by Nicole Brossard and translated by Angela Carr

This is poetry from Canada.

Ardour by Nicole Brossard translated by Angela Carr is published by Coach House Books. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2015.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781552453223E12.

Ardour, by Nicole Brossard and translated by Angela Carr, is a book whose title knows exactly what kind of heat it wants. Brossard is one of the major figures of Québécois feminist and experimental writing, and her poetry often treats language as a field of desire, politics, thought, and invention. Ardour suggests intensity, but not necessarily disorder. It is a sustained flame, a commitment to feeling and thinking at once. Carr’s translation brings Brossard’s French into English with the responsibility required for work where syntax and consciousness are deeply intertwined. I would read this collection for its luminous pressure: the erotic mind, the thinking body, the page as a place where identity refuses to stand still.

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