Nicole Brossard's A Book
"where the process / of creating the fiction is explicitly put / as the role of the reader" (34)
for Bernstein, a book which blocks "absorption": "Absorption is blocked by misting / [the] glass, or by breaking it, or / by painting on its surface. Any / typographic irregularity, / any glitch in expected / syntax, any / digression ... / Nicole Brossard makes this a theme / in A Book [...]"