Lovhers: 01 (Picas series) - Tapa blanda

This is the poetry by Nicole Brossard who has become well known as a lesbian feminist theorist and writer and as the leading figure among Quebec post-modernist writers. Her work blurs the boundaries between fiction and theory, subverting the fictions partriarchal discourse has spun about women's lives by working with the 're(her)alities' of women's lives that lie outside the codes of fiction.

Nicole Brossard, a poet, essayist, and novelist, has published more than twenty books, including "A Book, French Kiss, Lovhers, The Aerial Letter, "Mauve Desert, and "Baroque at Dawn. Her innovative work on language has influenced a whole generation on the questions of postmodernist and feminist writing. She is the winner of numerous awards, including two Governor General's awards, the Harbourfront Festival Prize, and Le prix Athanase-David (the highest literary recognition in Quebec literature). Nicole Brossard lives in Montreal.

Barbara Godard teaches English and Women's Studies at York University. Her nimble translation of "The Tale of Don l'Orignal", the first of her many distinguished book-length translations, recreates the spirit and the raucous dialogue in an English that's colourful, familiar, and just strange enough to capture the magic of the Fleas.