"White Piano is another masterful collaboration [by Brossard and translators Robert Majzels and Erín Moure], the language by turns powerful and quivering . . . and characterized by a transformative vitality ... At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and grow, White Piano is as brave as it is linguistically rich." – Quill and Quire
"Brossard conflates writing with lovemaking – 'at the hour of bedsheets or ink' – the poems forming a grammar of desire, like a diagrammed body . . . The translation Brossard is obsessed with here is of a different sort, the translation of bodily memories, resurrecting old loves. For Brossard words cover the wounds, 'colours that precede / the iodine of words / torment of punctuation.'" – The Believer (on Notebook of Roses and Civilization)
"[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind." – Montreal Gazette
"White Piano is another masterful collaboration [by Brossard and translators Robert Majzels and Erín Moure], the language by turns powerful and quivering . . . and characterized by a transformative vitality ... At once achingly aware of mortality and hell-bound in its determination to press forward, change, and grow, White Piano is as brave as it is linguistically rich." – Quill and Quire
"Brossard conflates writing with lovemaking – 'at the hour of bedsheets or ink' – the poems forming a grammar of desire, like a diagrammed body . . . The translation Brossard is obsessed with here is of a different sort, the translation of bodily memories, resurrecting old loves. For Brossard words cover the wounds, 'colours that precede / the iodine of words / torment of punctuation.'" – The Believer (on Notebook of Roses and Civilization)
"[Brossard] writes with a poetic intensity that burns select lines and sometimes entire paragraphs into the reader's mind." – Montreal Gazette
