Avant Desire: A Nicole Brossard Reader - A Nicole Brossard Reader (Brossard)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet. " L]yrical 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."-- Kate Zambreno, The Believer

" T]he nearly hundred poems in Ardour appear as fragments, but their brevity belies their breadth. ...] I feel saved by their intimacy, partly owing to their diminutive size: they feel like whispered truths, or at least consolations." -- Nicole Rudick, The Paris Review

In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing ground-breaking poetry, fiction, and criticism in French that has always been steadfastly and
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