The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body, animal, using ‘filiform protrusions through which it sucks the vital juices of its host.’ Parasite or… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
Poetry, I'm returning to it, never leaves me. It's my genre completely. In poetry I contemplate myself exuberantly. It's my unique strength. Force of… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
The text moves like a small crustacean with compound eye and complex nervous system; throbbing, involuted, it becomes a parasite on a different body,… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
The lesbian is a mental energy which gives breath and meaning to the most positive of images a woman can have of herself. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her mouth like… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian in the process of disappearing. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be. — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
“Then I stop existing. She is talking, talking, takes off who knows where, she says it all starts over, speech, paths, butterflies and that… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning to live with bare… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
“I am trying to imagine language without light, as though I wanted to understand how things were before language, when, deep in the throat,… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she and with… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share
