Product Description: Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory held at the Canadian Literature Centre, University of Alberta, and exemplifies the progress of radically interdisciplinary research, collaboration, and publishing efforts surrounding Canadian women's writing...read more

Product Description: Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction PrizeInvited to a quiet Swiss château by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon...read more

Product Description: “On strands of light I am hanging poetry like garlands.” These first words of poetry from Nicole Brossard anticipate the vast body of work she has published in the last four decades. The poems in Mobility of Light were chosen by Louise H...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Carla Carlson is at the Hotel Clarendon in Quebec City trying to finish a novel. Nearby, a woman, preoccupied with sadness 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...read more

Product Description: Nicole Brossard Essays on Her Works Edited by Louise H. Forsyth Sensual and compelling, the simple words of Nicole Brossard’s writings slip in unexpected ways into readers’ minds, all the better to transform their sense of self and reality...read more

Product Description: With tantalizing titles like "Only a Body to Measure Reality By," "Process of a Yes that moves its energy," "On Hell," "Are my tears universal?" and "Margin for Manoeuverability," Nicole Brossard’s essays pull the reader into writing that is gentle, searching, and unflinching in its examination of ideas, issues, and life...read more

Product Description: Nicole Brossard's fiction and poetry have been lauded as equal parts experimental and sensual, and Museum of Bone and Water continues this tradition. Drawing from Virginia Woolf and Jorge Luis Borges, this collection of poems investigates intimate bodily realms to probe questions of who we are and what we desire...read more

Product Description: Nicole Brossard's lucid, subversive and innovative work on language has influenced an entire generation of readers and writers. But three of her seminal works of postmodernism and feminism have been lost to us for years. The Blue Books brings them back...read more

Product Description: Part autobiography, part history, part confession, this intertwined, powerful essay wonderfully describes the multiplicity of disciplines required to construct fiction. In She Would Be the First Sentence of My Next Novel, a lyrical exploration of her own approach to writing novels, master writer Nicole Brossard offers to her readers the secrets and the struggles of writing in the feminine...read more

Product Description: Award-winning poet Nicole Brossard interrogates the nature of subjectivity and articulates the unsayable, paying close attention to those transitory moments when passions lodge themselves in metaphor. The intimacy of writing and the body speak together here, for to be able to say requires trembling against the grain of the skin...read more

Product Description: Baroque at Dawn is a luminous, powerful novel by Nicole Brossard, one of Quebec’s most influential writers.Obeying an affinity for the sea, writer Cybil Noland agrees to collaborate with oceanographer Occident DesRives and well-known photographer Irène Mage on a book recording the marvels of an undersea world that may not survive an age obsessed with technology...read more

Product Description: prose-work, Quebec, tr Fiona Strachan

Product Description: "I think the wild love between two women is so totally inconceivable that to talk or write that in all its dimension, one almost has to rethink the world, to understand what it is that happens to us. And we can rethink the world only through words." - Nicole Brossard

Product Description: Translated by Patricia Claxton