Lovhers (Essential poets)

Lovhers, first published in French as Amantes (1980), is a collection of poetry that blurs the boundaries between fiction and theory, establishing Nicole Brossard as a leading figure in Quebec post-modernist and lesbian feminist writing. The work subverts patriarchal discourse by engaging with the 're(her)alities' of women's lives outside of traditional fictional codes. The book is structured unconventionally into seven seemingly unrelated sections, or 'chapthers,' which resist traditional patriarchal form and content. It describes a utopian desire to reconfigure the world by translating sensual female experience into discourse, creating an intellectual space that links reading to writing, the private body to the political body. The text invites the reader, the 'lovher,' into a celebration of 'cerebral spinning,' plunging unselfconsciously into an experience that has no beginning or ending, expanding and intensifying like the spasms of multiple orgasms.

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