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Fiction. Translated from the French by Susanne de Lotbiniere-Harwood. Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with grief and infatuated with her boss, catalogues antiquities at the Museum of Civilization. Every night, the two women meet at the hotel bar and talk--about childhood and parents and landscapes, about time and art, about Descartes and Francis Bacon and writing. From their talk emerges a lively and beguiling read about life and death and the vertigo of ruins. "A new work by Brossard is an event--YESTERDAY, AT THE HOTEL CLARENDON is not merely experimental. It's radical"--The Globe and Mail. Nicole Brossard has published more than thirty books over the last forty years. She has received two Governor General's Awards, the Athanase-David Prize and the W. O. Mitchell Prize. She lives in Montreal.

First published in French in 1982, this novel of lesbian love among four women takes place between Curaçao and Montreal; New York and Paris. The title, taken from Wittgenstein, is a reference to the hologram as a new pictorial model for woman. Like the hologram which is intended to be read from an infinite number of changing conditions, Brossard's work abstracts the image of the feminine so that it can be read from all angles.

What characterizes women as a group is our colonized status. To be colonized is not to think for oneself, to think on behalf of "the other," to put one's emotions to work in service of "the other." In short, not to exist. Nicole Brossard is known internationally for her writings on writing, on feminism, and on lesbian existence. This edition released for a new wave of feminist outrage is a book full of spirit, energy, insight, and chutzpah. She is a major voice in contemporary literature with incisive and hard-hitting essays about feminist imagination and culture. I believe there's only one explanation for all of these texts: my desire and my will to understand patriarchal reality and how it works, not for its own sake but for its tragic consequences in the lives of women, in the life of the spirit. Years of anger, revolt, certitude, and conviction are in The Aerial Letter; years of fighting against the screen which stands in the way of women's energy, identity, and creativity. --Nicole Brossard

'Did Matthew "twist" the Scriptures?' 'Where did Satan come from?' 'My Reading? Questions and issues like these are presented in this selection of papers and presentations from a Bible conference at Avondale College on the broad topic of intertextuality. More than 100 scholars and administrators convened and shared their research as well as their personal perspectives on how to read and apply holy Scripture in the 21st century. This anthology contains a representative sample of their studies and reflections.

A bilingual collection of poems that offers a surreal perspective of urban experience. This bilingual edition of Nicole Brossard's lyrical poetry is a sequence of lush, taut cityscapes. Known for her elliptical and materially grounded poetics, Brossard creates an intimate series of poems drawn loosely from urban experience. The poems comprise an evocative distillation of postmodern urban life with a sharp sense of cultural and gendered histories of violence and beauty and struggles for survival and intimacy. The poems capture the emotional and ecological surroundings of each city and its people. The cities in Brossard's poems feel surreal and in them dwell survivors of "misfortunes," living in urban landscapes with their "gleaming debris" and "bridges, ghats, / rivers in a time of peace and torture." These poems gesture toward a transmuted social context and toward a quest "to meet the horizon the day after the horizon."

Une anthologie de poèmes à dire pour mieux écouter comment on respire aujourd'hui dans la langue française, que ce soit à Beyrouth, Bruxelles, Dakar, Genève, Montréal, Paris, Port-au-Prince, Tunis ou ailleurs. Une anthologie qui révèle comment cette langue vibre quand la joie, la douleur, le désir, la beauté sont à couper le souffle. Une anthologie pour mieux partager cette langue quand elle penche du côté de l'émotion, de l'identité et de la diversité.

Nicole Brossard, one of the world's foremost literary innovators, is known for her experiments with language and her groundbreaking treatment of desire and gender. This translation sheds light on the Brossard's remarkable syntax, sadness, and sensuality. schovat popis

This is the poetry by Nicole Brossard who has become well known as a lesbian feminist theorist and writer and as the leading figure among Quebec post-modernist writers. Her work blurs the boundaries between fiction and theory, subverting the fictions partriarchal discourse has spun about women's lives by working with the 're(her)alities' of women's lives that lie outside the codes of fiction.

The latest poetic offering from the doyenne of experimental writing.

Exploring the nature of subjectivity, Nicole Brossard's poetry delves into the intimate connections between writing and the body, capturing fleeting moments where passion transforms into metaphor. The evocative fragments in this collection reveal the spiraling dynamics of language, emphasizing themes of eroticism, longing, and excess. This new translation by Erin Mour and Robert Majzels brings Brossard's award-winning work to an English-speaking audience, highlighting its sparse yet profound beauty.