Distantly

Nicole Brossard has published over thirty books, including Ardeur, Lointaines, Piano blanc, Lumière, and fragment d’envers. In 2019, she was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry. Sylvain Gallais is emeritus professor of economics at Université Francois Rabelais (Tours, France) and of French in the School of International Letters and Culture at Arizona State University. He is coauthor of France Encounters Globalization. Cynthia Hogue is a translator, poet, and the inaugural Marshall Chair in Poetry Emerita Professor of English at Arizona State University. She is the author of several books, most recently In June the Labyrinth.

“One of the most outstanding writers of her generation, known for her feminist commitment and innovative aesthetics, Brossard here turns her incisive imagination to cities, evoking them through details that range from the austere to the flamboyant. And always as lived: she shows them not as abstractions, but as extensions of the people that live them, just as the people are, in turn, constructions of the cities in which they live. Gallais and Hogue capture all the complexity of Brossard's subtle implications and slippery imagery in a translation that reads with the grace and conviction of the original.”