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Simone Leigh (Hardcover)
Simone Leigh; Edited by Eva Respini; Foreword by Jill Medvedow; Text written by Vanessa Agard-Jones, Rizvana Bradley, …
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Acclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous ... a work of great
beauty and moral imagination, " In Another Place, Not Here tells of
two contemporary Caribbean women who find brief refuge in each
other on an island in the midst of political uprising. Elizete,
dreaming of running to another place to escape the harshness of her
daily life on the island, meets Verlia, an urban woman in constant
flight who has returned to her island birthplace with hopes of
revolution. Their tumultuous story moves between city and island,
past and future, fantasy and reality.
An immense achievement, comprising a decades-long career - new and
collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant
poets 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 labours 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 1982 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; 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
connects language, coloniality, and sexuality. Land to Light On
explores intimacies and disaffections with nationality and the
nation-state, 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 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.
The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for
this...coloniality constructs outsides and insides-worlds to be
chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated-in order to live
something like a real self. Internationally acclaimed poet and
novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial
literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her
encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways
that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative
structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative of Black life
that attends to its own expression and its own consciousness.
A breakout novel for Dionne Brand: a story of heart-stopping
suspense from the acclaimed author of At the Full and Change of the
Moon, that is also a hymn to youth and life in the city.
What we all long for opens with an unforgettable scene: desperate
Vietnamese families are fleeing the country in open boats. In the
confusion and darkness, six-year-old Quy, carrying his family's
life-savings of diamonds sewn into his belt, loses his grip on his
mother's hand and, in the crush of people, follows the wrong pair
of trousered legs into another boat. His family manages to get to
Canada soon after, but Quy, trapped in the refugee camps in
Thailand, is seemingly lost to them.
Some twenty years on in Toronto, in the summer of 2002, Quy's
mother still lives in hope of finding him. Her daughter Tuyen, an
aspiring artist, and her friends are typical Canadian kids getting
by in the city -- afire with their desire for independence, they're
selling used clothes, bike couriering, sponging off their parents.
At night they blast John Coltrane and drum 'n' bass, get high and
try to find the passion they believe will galvanize their lives.
Meanwhile Quy, now a dangerous criminal, is finding his way to
Canada and to a gripping, unexpected encounter with his lost
family.
In this beautiful novel that is both a hymn to life in the city and
to youth, the mounting tension of Quy's journey is skilfully played
out against the rhythms and excitements of Toronto from the
seventies to the present.
Excerpt From "What We All Long For
"The muscles of highway and streets met down at the lake. All along
the underpasses graffiti marred the concrete girders. She
recognized the tags. The kids who livedacross the alleyway from her
apartment were graffiti artists. Kumaran's grinning pig, Abel's
'narc' initial, then Keeran's desert and Jericho's lightning bolt.
She felt slightly comforted though she had asked them often enough
to paint something else if they were going to paint the whole city
over. Something more. They had practically filled all the walls of
the city with these four signs, and she would have liked them to
paint a flowering jungle or a seaside, the places where her mother
Angie had always dreamed of going but never went. But she loved the
city. She loved riding through the neck of it. . .She loved the
feeling of weight and balance it gave her.
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Blue Clerk (Paperback)
Dionne Brand
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