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Desirings

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From: Avant Desire

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This first section works to pay homage to Brossard’s celebration of pleasure which, the editors believe, "hinges around the seductive force of desire in its multiple iterations." Includes: Logical Suite (Pierre Joris) – The Part for the Whole (Jennifer Moxley) – Calligrapher/in Drag (Larry Shouldice) – June the Fever (Barbara Godard) – Sous la langue/Under Tongue (Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood) – Ultrasound (Robert Majzels and Erín Moure) – Scenes, from Mauve Desert (Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood) – Hotel Rafale, from Baroque at Dawn (Patricia Claxton) – Sixth Bend, Ninth Bend (Lou Nelson)

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Nicole Brossard

Nicole Brossard (b. Montréal, 1943) began publishing in 1965. She has published more than forty books since and twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award. A consummate advocate for literature and feminist discourse, she cofounded and co-directed the avant-garde literary magazine La Barre du jour (1965–1975), co-directed the film Some American Feminists (1976) and co-edited the acclaimed Anthologie de la poésie des femmes au Québec (1991, 2003). Her work has influenced a whole generation poets and feminists and has been translated widely into English as well as Spanish, German, Italian, Japanese, Slovenian, Romanian, Catalan, and Portuguese.