Baiser vertige : prose et poésie gaies et lesbiennes au Québec

by Nicole Brossard (choix et préface de)

Pour la première fois, voici réunis en une anthologie des textes québécois de poésie et de prose qui font écho aux amours et à la solitude gaies, à la révolte et aux rêves lesbiens. Animés de colère ou de mélancolie, d'amour fou ou de peine vive, vingt-neuf auteurs donnent à lire, dans un croisement d'époques et de générations, l'enfance, le plaisir, le désir et la perte. Baiser vertige permet ainsi de découvrir sous un angle nouveau une part importante de la littérature québécoise.

340 pages, Paperback

First published May 15, 2006

About the author

Born in Montreal (Quebec), poet, novelist and essayist Nicole Brossard published her first book in 1965. In 1965 she cofounded the influential literary magazine La Barre du Jour and in 1976 she codirected the film Some American Femnists. She has published eight novels including Picture Theory, Mauve Desert, Baroque at Dawn, an essay "The Aerial Letter" and many books of poetry including Daydream Mechanics, Lovhers, Typhon dru, Installations, Musee de l'os et de l'eau. She has won the Governor General award twice for her poetry (1974, 1984) and Le Grand Prix de Poesie de la Foundation les Forges in 1989 and 1999. Le Prix Athanase-David, which is for a lifetime of literary acheivement, was attributed to her in 1991. That same year she received the The Harbourfront Festival Prize. In 1994, she was made a member of L'Academie des Lettres du Quebec. Her work has been widely translated and anthologized. Mauve Desert and Baroque at Dawn have been translated into Spanish. In 1998 she published a bilingual edition of an autofiction essay titled She would be the first sentence of my new novel/Elle serait la premiere phrase de mon prochain roman(1998). In 1989, a book of her poetry in translation, Installations, was released, translated by Erin Moure and Robert Majzels. Nicole Brossard lives in Montreal.