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    Ardour
    Ardour
    Ardour
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    Ardour

    By Nicole Brossard

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    something like wait for me
    in the braille of scars
    tonight can i suggest a little punctuation
    circle half-moon vertical line of astonishment
    a pause that transforms
    light and breath 
    into language and threshold of fire

    Even as vowels tremble in danger and worldly destruction repeats itself on the horizon, Ardour reminds us that the silence pulsing within us is also a language of connection. In these poems, intimacy with the other is another astonishment—a pleasant gasp, a "pause that transforms light and breath into language and threshold of fire." Since her first book appeared fifty years ago, Nicole Brossard has left us breathless, expanding our notion of poetry and its possibilities.

    '[Nicole Brossard] is a wholly singular writer, part of a larger movement of Quebec Women's writing, part of feminist writing,avant-garde writing, part of lesbian writing, but wholly, unequivocally, herself.' – Sina Queyras

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCoach House Books
    Release dateOct 1, 2015
    ISBN9781770564206
    Ardour
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    Nicole Brossard

    Poète, romancière et essayiste, Nicole Brossard est née à Montréal en 1943. Depuis la parution de son premier recueil en 1965, elle a publié une trentaine de livres, dont Le centre blanc, La lettre aérienne, Le désert mauve, Hier, Cahier de roses et de civilisation. Deux fois récipiendaire du prix du Gouverneur général (1974, 1984) pour sa poésie, elle compte parmi les chefs de file d’une génération qui a renouvelé la poésie québécoise dans les années soixante-dix. Elle a cofondé en 1965 la revue littéraire La Barre du Jour et, en 1976, le journal féministe Les Têtes de Pioche. Elle a aussi coréalisé le film Some American Feminists (1976). En 1991, elle a publié, avec Lisette Girouard, une anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec (Des origines à nos jours) et, en 2002, Poèmes à dire la francophonie. En 1991, le prix Athanase-David, la plus haute distinction littéraire au Québec, lui était attribué. En 1999, elle a reçu pour une deuxième fois le Grand Prix du Festival international de la poésie de Trois-Rivières pour ses recueils Musée de l’os et de l’eau et Au présent des veines. En 2003, le prix W.O. Mitchell lui a été attribué. La même année, elle a reçu une bourse de carrière du Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec. En 2006, elle reçoit le Prix Molson du Conseil des Arts ainsi que le Grade de Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Pléiade nommée par l’Assemblée parlementaire de la francophonie. En 2010, elle reçoit le titre d’Officier de l’Ordre du Canada. Elle est membre d’honneur de l’UNEQ. Ses textes sont parus dans plusieurs anthologies et ses livres sont traduits en plusieurs langues et lui valent aujourd’hui une réputation internationale.

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      This is one of those relatively short poetry books which is worth ten times its weight or word count. Brossard's words are both elegant and powerful, as gorgeous as they are thick with meaning. Among other snippets, from "Napes":"in all of us there's a silencethat gallops on nights of sorrow-- to be this body in the breakneck speed of the presentbrushing againstgrief when touchingthe other's gestures and their petalsof memory and shimmeringand before the 'bad infinity'we embrace without hesitationto impressthe animal leapan impassive glancein our chests"Simply, there's a beauty to this book, in its complete form, that I can't quite put into words. I'll read it again, and again, and pass it along to other poets if I can.Absolutely recommended.

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    Ardour - Nicole Brossard

    English translation copyright © Angela Carr, 2015

    Original text © Nicole Brossard, 2008

    First English edition. Originally published in French as Ardeur in 2008 as a co-edition by Éditions Phi and Écrits des Forges.

    We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the National Translation Program for Book Publishing, an initiative of the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013–2018: Education, Immigration, Communities, for our translation activities. Published with the generous assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. Coach House Books also acknowledges the support of the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.

    LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION

    Brossard, Nicole, 1943-

    [Ardeur. English]

    Ardour / Nicole Brossard ; Angela Carr, translator.

    Translation of: Ardeur.

    Poems.

    ISBN 978-1-55245-322-3 (paperback).

    I. Carr, Angela, 1976-, translator II. Title. III. Title: Ardeur. English.

    PS8503.R7A7613 2015   C841'.54   C2015-905046-4

    Ardour is available as an ebook: ISBN 978 1 77056 420 6

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