Distantly
About This Book
This bilingual collection gathers Nicole Brossard's lyrical poems, which view city life through a surreal lens. The sequence is made of intimate pieces loosely drawn from urban experience, each one sketching a dense, tightly composed cityscape. Brossard's work is known for its oblique, compressed style and its grounding in physical detail, and here those qualities shape a distilled portrait of postmodern city life. The poems look at the histories of violence and beauty that run through culture and gender, and at the ongoing effort to survive and to stay close to others. Each city is rendered through its emotional and ecological atmosphere and through the people who live there. These cities feel dreamlike, and their inhabitants are people who have endured hardship, moving through landscapes strewn with discarded remnants of modern life, among bridges, riverside ghats, and rivers that have known both calm and cruelty. The poems hint at a changed social world and at a search for a horizon that lies beyond the one people normally reach, one that appears only after the next dawn has already passed.
ISBN: 9781632431011
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