White Piano (4 page)
I touch on all the questions
I bathe the hours
because flesh because one day we must
speak of meat and of happiness
I let go dying
the yourselves and digital dialogues
eyes charged with an intensity of
adieu
manuscripts of ephemera in plain sight
each of us swept up in our joy will glide
fingers keyboard clamour
in the night of savoir-vie
Nicole Brossard
is a poet, novelist and essayist who has published more than thirty books since 1965, including
These Our Mothers
,
Lovhers
,
Mauve Desert
and
Baroque at Dawn
. She has won two Governor General’s Awards for poetry, as well as le Prix Athanase-David and the Canada Council’s Molson Prize. Her most recent collection in English,
Notebook of Roses and Civilization
, also translated by Robert Majzels and Erín Moure, was nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize. She lives in Montreal.
Erín Moure
is a poet and translator from French, Spanish, Galician and Portuguese; she has published seventeen books of poetry. Her work has received the Governor General’s Award, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, the A. M. Klein Prize, and has been a three-time finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize. Her most recent book of poetry is
The Unmemntioable
(2012).
Robert Majzels
is a novelist, poet, playwright and translator. He is the author of the full-length play
This Night the Kapo
(Playwrights Canada Press), and four novels, most recently
Apikoros Sleuth
(The Mercury Press, 2004) and
The Humbugs Diet
(The Mercury Press, 2007).
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The print edition of this book is typeset in Albertan and Sympathique.
Albertan was designed by the late Jim Rimmer of New Westminster, B.C., in 1982. He drew and cut the type in metal at the 16pt size in roman only; it was intended for use only at his Pie Tree Press. He drew the italic in 1985, designing it with a narrow fit and very slight incline, and created a digital version. The family was completed in 2005 when Rimmer redrew the bold weight and called it Albertan Black. The letterforms of this type family have an old-style character, with Rimmer’s own calligraphic hand in evidence, especially in the italic.
Printed in January 2013 at the old Coach House on bpNichol Lane in Toronto, Ontario, on Zephyr Antique Laid paper, which was manufactured, acid-free, in Saint-Jérôme, Quebec, from second-growth forests. This book was printed with vegetable-based ink on a 1965 Heidelberg
KORD
offset litho press. Its pages were folded on a Baumfolder, gathered by hand, bound on a Sulby Auto-Minabinda and trimmed on a Polar single-knife cutter.
Edited for the press by Susan Holbrook
Designed by Alana Wilcox
Cover image,
Missa
, by Dominique Blain, courtesy of the artist and the Meyers/Bloom Gallery, as photographed by Robert Wedemeyer.
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