White Piano
language I'll say yes
from the top of my rib cage
language will you come
out and unearth the salt the certitude
Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. A play of resonance between pronouns and persons, freely percussive between prose and poetry, and narrating a constellation of questions, White Piano offers readers a 'language that cultivates its own craters of fire and savoir-vie.'
'At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and grow, White Piano is as brave as it is linguistically rich.'
- Quill & Quire
'[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind.'
- Montreal Gazette
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from the top of my rib cage
language will you come
out and unearth the salt the certitude
Between the verbs quivering and streaming, White Piano unfolds its variations like musical scores. A play of resonance between pronouns and persons, freely percussive between prose and poetry, and narrating a constellation of questions, White Piano offers readers a 'language that cultivates its own craters of fire and savoir-vie.'
'At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and grow, White Piano is as brave as it is linguistically rich.'
- Quill & Quire
'[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind.'
- Montreal Gazette
Nicole Brossard
**Nicole Brossard**, née à Montréal en 1943, est une poétesse, romancière et essayiste québécoise, figure majeure de la littérature féministe et avant-gardiste. Son œuvre, traduite dans plusieurs langues, explore les thèmes du **corps lesbien**, de la **langue comme outil de libération**, et de la **transgression des normes**. Cofondatrice de revues littéraires et militante engagée, elle a reçu de nombreux prix, dont deux fois le **Prix du Gouverneur général** pour sa poésie. Son écriture, à la fois sensuelle et théorique, a marqué plusieurs générations d’écrivains.
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