Spanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has given
rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound
alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other,
possibly future, time and place, Brand’s ongoing labors of
witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and
reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems begins with a new long poem,
the titular Nomenclature for the Time Being, in which Dionne
Brand’s diaspora consciousness dismantles our quotidian
disasters. In addition to this searing new work, Nomenclature
collects eight volumes of Brand’s poetry published between
1982Â and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the
literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe. Nomenclature: New
and Collected Poems features the searching and centering
cantos of Primitive Offensive; the sharp musical conversations of
Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of
Claudia; and the documentary losses of revolutions in Chronicles of
the Hostile Sun, in which “The street was empty/with all of us
standing there.” No Language Is Neutral reads language,
coloniality, and sexuality as a nexus. Land to Light On writes
intimacies and disaffections with nation, while in thirsty a
cold-eyed flâneur surveys the workings of the city. In
Inventory, written during the Gulf Wars, the poet is “the wars’
last and late night witness,” her job is not to soothe but
to “revise and revise this bristling
list/hourly.” Ossuaries’ futurist speaker rounds out the
collection and threads multiple temporal worlds—past,
present, and future. This masterwork displays Dionne Brand’s
ongoing body of thought—trenchant, lyrical, absonant, discordant,
and meaning-making. Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems is
classic and living, a record of one of the great writers of our
age.
General
Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
October 2022 |
First published: |
2022 |
Authors: |
Dionne Brand
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Introduction by: |
Christina Sharpe
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Dimensions: |
203 x 152mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover
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Pages: |
672 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4780-1662-5 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-4780-1662-0 |
Barcode: |
9781478016625 |
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