One of Canada's most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores
and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular
the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries
and modern crises. This republication of three early volumes
presents a view of the trajectory of her poetic journey. Read
retrospectively, the earlier work is haunting, a testament to a
historical moment in which change seemed possible, even imminent, a
belief nourished by the various social movements that galvanized a
generation. Individually and as a whole, Brand's work charts a
collective as well as a personal journey, delving into the burdens
of history and the fugitive, contingent, dynamic, and mutable
geographies of the African diaspora. She locates herself within
matrices of language, place, gender, sexuality, and politics and
maps what she calls the "murmurous genealogy" of her city, Toronto,
and the denizen-citizenship of the contemporary global.
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