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We need, and indeed new generations are now creating, new realities. The queer, hybrid, gender-fluid reality is a kinship between bodies and cities in flux. We need dexterousness and fluidity; we need to be able to collide with the contradictions of our lives as we live them. We need to remember where we have been even as we are driving a fast car (a fuel cell) into the desert, and we must recognize who is with us in the car, on what path, in which sentence. Brossard’s thinking reminds us of these variances and urgencies – even as the world is heating and changing and reminding us, too, of its urgencies.

Generations is perhaps the shortest of these thematic sections, but the texts we have placed here are vital. They demonstrate Brossard’s attentiveness to the power of the written work to make space in the structures that oppress us. Take, for example, an excerpt of this poem: ‘Ardour draws its knots of presence/ here and there in the city we live/ on convictions’ (from Ardour). The speaker moves across time and space and hails a collective ‘we’ that survives on conviction. Epistolary, fragmentary, intimate: the texts here perform care for past and future generations.