Available for the first time in more than fifteen years, this collection from celebrated poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard is a provocative investigation of the human body - our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.

Nicole Brossard's Museum of Bone and Water delivers sensual and provocative investigations of the human body - our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire - that pulse and surprise at every turn. In this collection, fingers, lips, fists, cheeks mingle in the palm trees of Dublin and Key West, the heat of Palermo and Madrid. With each dazzling turn and each "crazy" silence, Brossard speeds our breath and quickens our hearts, reminding us that poetry too is both a physical and spiritual reality.

Museum of Bone and Water, a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award, is recognized as a major work in the oeuvre of leading Quebecoise poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard - recently honoured with the Lifetime Recognition Award by the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. The collection is now available in a handsome A List edition with a new introduction by Robert Majzels and Erin Moure.

About the Author
NICOLE BROSSARD's collections of poetry have twice won the Governor General's Literary Award and the Grand Prix de la poesie de la Fondation des Forges. She has been honoured with the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry, the Canada Council for the Arts Molson Prize, the Prix Athanase David, the inaugural Blue Metropolis Violet Prize, and the Harbourfront Festival Prize, among other awards, and her work has been translated into ten languages. She is an officer of the Order of Canada, chevaliere of the National Order of Quebec, and a member of l'Academie des lettres du Quebec. In addition to her poetry, Brossard has written novels, plays, and essays; directed two films; and co-founded the literary journal La Barre du Jour. She lives in Montreal. ERIN MOURE is a poet and translator (primarily of Galician and French poetry into English) who welcomes texts that are unconventional or difficult because she loves and needs them. Among other honours, she is a two-time winner of Canada's Governor General's Award (in poetry and translation), a winner of the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Nelson Ball Prize, a co-recipient of the QWF Spoken Word Prize, a three-time finalist for a Best Translated Book Award in poetry, and a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She is based in Tiohtia:ke/Montreal. ROBERT MAJZELS won the Governor General's Literary Award for his translation of France Daigle's novel Just Fine, and he has been nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Best Translated Book Award for his translations (with Erin Moure) of Nicole Brossard's poetry. He currently teaches creative writing at the University of Calgary.

Reviews

An exquisite translation ... Brossard's work is serious, yet not sombre, and sometimes deeply erotic.

* Quill & Quire *

[Brossard's] language moves between sensuality and deconstructionism in a luscious interplay between the abstract and the corporeal ... Her lucid use of sound and form are both gracefully captured in translation.

* Foreword Reviews *



Book Information
ISBN 9781487008093
Author Nicole Brossard
Format Paperback
Page Count 136
Imprint House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Publisher House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
Weight(grams) 172g
Dimensions(mm) 215mm * 139mm * 8mm