Mobility of light : the poetry of Nicole Brossard / Nicole Brossard and Louise H. Forsyth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brossard, Nicole, author.

Forsyth, Louise H., author.

Series:

Laurier poetry series.

Laurier poetry series

Standardized Title:

Poems. English & French. Selections

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Knowledge management.

Communication and technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

French

Summary:

"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. Forsyth to elicit a sense of these whirling garlands and convey the intense energy-physical, creative, spiritual, erotic, imaginative, playful, ethical, and political-that has carried Brossard to a uniquely significant vision of the human spirit. Poems are presented in French and English on facing pages, underscoring the density o

Contents:

Table of Contents; Foreword, Neil Besner; Biographical Note; Introduction; Aube à la saison / "Season Dawning"; Mordre en sa chair / "Biting in the Flesh"; L'écho bouge beau / "Echo Budges Beautiful"; Suite logique / "Suite logic"; Le centre blanc / "The White Centre"; Mécanique jongleuse, suivi de Masculin grammaticale / Daydream Mechanics.Masculine Singular; La partie pour le tout / "The Part for the Whole"; L'amèr ou le chapitre effrité / These Our Mothers Or: The Disintegrating Chapter; Amantes / Lovhers; Marginal Way / "Marginal Way"; L'aviva / Aviva; À tout regard / "If"

Installations / InstallationsLangues obscures / "Obscure Tongues"; La nuit verte du Parc Labyrinthe. Green Night of Labyrinth Park. La noche verde del Parque Laberinto; Vertige de l'avant-scène / "Downstage Vertigo"; Au présent des veines / "Coursing through the Veins"; La matière heureuse manoeuvre encore, in Au présent des veines / Harmonious Matter Is Still Manoeuvring"; Musée de l'os et de l'eau / Museum of Bone and Water; Je m'en vais à Trieste / "I'm Leaving for Trieste"; Cahier de roses et de civilisation. Écritures 2 / Notebook of Roses and Civilization

Shadow: Soft et Soif, in Ardeur / Shadow Soft et SoifAprès les mots / "After Words"; Postface; Afterword; Acknowledgements

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781554582785

1554582784

OCLC:

753479497