NICOLE BROSSARD1965 and began another, Les Têtes de pioche, in 1976. Between 1975 and 1976 she
produced the play Some American Feminists. In 1991 she won the Prix Athanase-
David for lifetime achievement and in 1994 entered the Académie des lettres du
Québec. Principal works: Le Centre blanc/poèmes, 1965–1975; Mordre en sa chair,
1966; Double impression/poèmes et textes, 1967–1984, 1978; L’Écho bouge beau,
1968; Suite logique, 1970; Amantes, 1980; Installations, 1989; Langues obscures,
1992; Vertige de l’avant-scène, 1997; Au présent des veines, 1999; L’Anthologie de la
poésie des femmes au Québec de 1892–1988 (coeditor with Lisette Girouard), 2002;
Poèmes à dire la francophonie: 38 poètes contemporains (editor), 2002.
I Want to Revise This Sequence
as well as the wind’s deliberate pornography
symbolic and besides anyway
skin a word were enough for me: virtual
crossing our versions of the voice
and pleasure, that’s at the root of it for me
like the thought which grasps its thrust
the brain: so many transversal
from the corniche to the cornea
inscriptions
mouth, I write, I test out and I think
acquired, I forgeta unique emotion
........................in the tournament I cultivate the singularity
of love and symptom therefore
I accost/si proche
dans ton cerveau
with no translation/dans le Temps/I remember
and come in one rush: excited landscape
les villes s’approchent: the shoulder, the verdict
once and I weep, around
closer, I risk remembrance from behind
cervical / and smouldering kiss thighs
and of existence: I needed a thimble
a story to continue/d’approcher
l/over les/bian day of sheaves
my kind my accomplice: music