{"product_id":"brossard-nicole-ardourpb","title":"Brossard, Nicole: Ardour","description":"\u003cp\u003eCoach House Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTranslated by Angela Carr\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: October 20, 2015\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Nicole Brossard] is a wholly singular writer, part of a larger movement of Québec Women's writing, part of feminist writing, avant-garde writing, part of lesbian writing, but wholly, unequivocally, herself.\"--Sina Queyras\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003esomething like wait for me\u003cbr\u003ein the braille of scars\u003cbr\u003etonight can i suggest a little punctuation\u003cbr\u003ecircle half-moon vertical line of astonishment\u003cbr\u003ea pause that transforms\u003cbr\u003elight and breath\u003cbr\u003einto language and threshold of fire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven as vowels tremble in danger and worldly destruction repeats itself on the horizon,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eArdour\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003ereminds us that the silence pulsing within us is also a language of connection. In these poems, intimacy with the other is another astonishment--a pleasant gasp, a \"pause that transforms light and breath into language and threshold of fire.\" Since her first book appeared fifty years ago, Nicole Brossard has left us breathless, expanding our notion of poetry and its possibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45248149913623,"sku":"9781552453223","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/51hwVIm2i_L_b218ee9f-27a0-416c-897d-71cec596d862.jpg?v=1782681080","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/brossard-nicole-ardourpb","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}