Avant Desire
A Nicole Brossard Reader
Edited bySina QueyrasGeneviève RobichaudErin Wunker
Coach House Books, Toronto
copyright © Nicole Brossard, 2020
translations © the translators, 2020
collection copyright © Coach House Books, 2020
first edition
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Title: Avant desire : a Nicole Brossard reader / by Nicole Brossard ; edited by Sina Queryas, Geneviève Robichaud, and Erin Wunker.
Other titles: Works. Selections. English
Names: Brossard, Nicole, author. | Queryas, Sina, editor. | Robichaud, Geneviève, editor. | Wunker, Erin, editor.
Description: Collected translations of the original French. | Includes bibliographical references. | Text in English; includes some text in French.
Identifiers: Canadiana (print) 20200198793 | Canadiana (ebook) 20200198947 | ISBN 9781552454039 (softcover) | ISBN 9781770566279 (EPUB) | ISBN 9781770566361 (PDF)
Classification: LCC PS8503.R7 A2 2020 | DDC C841/.54—DC23
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Avant Desire, The Future Shall Be Swayed, by Sina Queyras, Geneviève Robichaud, Erin Wunker
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)
The Aerial Letter (Marlene Wildeman)
6 December 1989 among the Centuries (Marlene Wildeman)
From Shadow, from Ardour (Angela Carr)
Femme d’aujourd-hui: An Interview (Geneviève Robichaud)
from Intimate Journal (Barbara Godard)
Worn Along the Fold (Fiona Strachan)
Screen Skin Utopia, from Picture Theory (Barbara Godard)
Just Once, from French Kiss (Patricia Claxton)
Chapter Two, from Turn of a Pang (Patricia Claxton)
Harmonious Matter Still Manoeuvres (Caroline Bergvall)
Soft Link 1 (Robert Majzels and Erín Moure)
Smooth Horizon of the Verb Love (Robert Majzels and Erín Moure)
Every Ardour (Robert Majzels and Erín Moure)
Theory, A City, an Introduction to Theory, A Sunday by Lisa Robertson