Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard and translated by Nicole Brossard

This is poetry from Canada.

Nicole Brossard by Nicole Brossard translated by Nicole Brossard is published by University of California Press. This is a Book originally written in French. This was published in 2009.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780520261082E12.

Nicole Brossard, translated from the French with the author involved in the English version, brings Nicole Brossard’s French-language work into English through University of California Press. Published in 2009, it is best approached as a book of encounter rather than as a book to solve. Brossard’s work belongs to a feminist and formally experimental lineage where syntax itself becomes a site of desire, theory, and refusal. Biography and context may deepen the experience, but they do not need to stand in the doorway. Let the poem arrive first, then let the questions follow. Translation here becomes less a matter of loss than of new access: a voice from Canada finding another set of nerves in English.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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