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SUMMARY: Nicole Brossard In Conversation With Margaret Christakos
LOCATION:Gladstone Hotel Ballroom (1214 Queen St West\, Toronto\, Ontario)
URL:http://www.blogto.com/events/8690
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Pages Books =26 Magazines presents This is Not A Reading =
Series=0D=0AVisit=3A www=2Epagesbooks=2Eca=0D=0A=0D=0AIs it =
possible to write a contemporary novel entirely in poetic =
verse=3F Can you write in a language other than your own=3F =
At the English language premiere of her latest novel Fences =
In Breathing =28translated by Susanne de =
Lotbini=EF=BF=BDre=2DHarwood=29=2C famed experimental =
author=2C poet and feminist Nicole Brossard will speak with =
fellow cross=2Dgenre writer Margaret Christakos about the =
relative merits of writing novels and poetry=2C and what =
happens when one bleeds into another=2E Marc Glassman=2C =
Executive Director of This is Not A Reading Series and =
Proprietor of Pages Books =26 Magazines will host the =
evening=2E =EF=BF=BD A This is Not A Reading Series event =
presented by Pages Books =26 Magazines=2C Coach House =
Books=2C Gladstone Hotel and Take Five On CIUT=2E =
=0D=0AGladstone Hotel Ballroom=2C 1214 Queen St West=2C =
Toronto=0D=0ATues Apr 14=3B 7=3A30pm =28Doors 7pm=29 =245 =
=28Free With Book Purchase=29  =0D=0A=0D=0AFENCES IN =
BREATHING Invited to a quiet Swiss ch=EF=BF=BDteau by the =
enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann=2C Anne begins to slowly =
write a novel in a language that is not hers=2C a language =
that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world =
and its fiery horizon=2E Will the strange intoxication that =
takes hold of her and her characters =EF=BF=BD sculptor =
Charles=3B his sister Kim=2C about to leave for the =
Arctic=3B Kim=EF=BF=BDs love=2C June=2C owner of a video =
store=3B and Laure Ravin=2C a lawyer obsessed with the =
Patriot Act =EF=BF=BD allow her to break through the =
darkness of the world=3F Fences in Breathing=2C first =
published and critically lauded in French as La capture du =
sombre=2C is a disquieting=2C dexterous=2C and defiant =
missive=2C another triumph by Nicole Brossard=2C one of =
North America=EF=BF=BDs foremost practitioners of innovative =
writing=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ANICOLE BROSSARD is a poet=2C novelist =
and essayist who has published more than thirty books since =
1965=2C including These Our Mothers=2C Lovhers=2C Mauve =
Desert and Baroque at Dawn=2E She co=2Dfounded La Barre du =
Jour and La Nouvelle Barre de Jour=2C two important literary =
journals in Quebec=2E She has won two Governor General=27s =
Awards for poetry=2C as well as le Prix Athanase=2DDavid=2C =
and her work has been translated into several =
languages=2E=0D=0A=0D=0AMARGARET CHRISTAKOS is the =
award=2Dwinning author of six acclaimed poetry collections =
and a novel=2C Charisma=2C shortlisted for the Trillium Book =
Award=2E She teaches creative writing and runs =
=EF=BF=BDInfluency=3A A Toronto Poetry Salon=EF=BF=BD at the =
University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies=2E Her =
most recent collection=2C Sooner was shortlisted for the Pat =
Lowther Award=2E=0D=0A=0D=0ASUSANNE DE =
LOTBINI=EF=BF=BDRE=2DHARWOOD is the author of Rebelle et =
infid=EF=BF=BDle=2FThe Body Bilingual=2E She has translated =
many works of theory and fiction into French and English=2C =
including Brossard=EF=BF=BDs Mauve Desert and She Would Be =
the First Sentence of My Next Novel=2E=0D=0A=0D=0AMEDIA =
CONTACTS=3A=0D=0ANicole Brossard=2C Margaret Christakos=2C =
Susanne de Lotbini=EF=BF=BDre=2DHarwood=3A Evan Munday=2C =
evan=40chbooks=2Ecom=2C =28416=29 979=2D2217=0D=0AThis Is =
Not A Reading Series=3A Chris Reed=2C =
tinars=40pagesbooks=2Eca=2C =28416=29 598=2D1447 ext =
221=0D=0A
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