Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems (Penguin Modern Classics)

Dionne Brand

Penguin Classics

In Another Place Not Here

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

WOMEN\'S PRESS LTD,THE

Theory

<p>A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect meet on a collision course. This plot affirms Dionne Brand's place as one of Canada's most dazzling and influential artists. Theory begins as its narrator sets out, like many graduate students, to write a wildly ambitious thesis on art, culture, race, gender, class, and politics--a revolutionary work that its author believes will transform the world. While our narrator tries to accomplish this feat, three lovers enter the story, one after the other, each transforming the endeavour: first, there is beautiful and sensual Selah, who scoffs at the narrator's constant tinkering with academic abstractions; then altruistic and passionate Yara, who rescues every lost soul who crosses her path; and finally, spiritual occultist Odalys, who values magic and superstition over the heady intellectual and cultural circles the narrator aspires to inhabit. Each galvanizing love affair (representing, in turn, the heart, the head and the spirit) upends and reorients the narrator's life and, inevitably, requires an overhaul of the ever larger and more unwieldy dissertation, with results both humorous and poignant. By effortlessly telling this short, intense tale in the voice of an unnamed narrator, Dionne Brand makes a bold statement not only about love and personhood, but about race and gender--and what can and cannot be articulated in prose when the forces that inhabit the space between words are greater than words themselves. A gorgeous, profoundly moving, word- and note-perfect blend of ideas that only a great artist at the height of her powers could write.</p>

Women's Fiction

Penguin Canada

<p>An evocative and insightful essay collection, Bread Out of Stone brings Dionne Brand's signature unflinching eye and personal history to issues of sex, sexism and sexual autonomy; politics, community and the centrality of whiteness in Canadian culture; diaspora and immigration; violence and stereotypes; racial imagination; and music, art, literature and freedom.\nFirst published in 1998, this edition includes a new introduction from the critically acclaimed writer. These prescient essays, whose bearing still have a tight grip in contemporary culture, offer commentary and criticism in Brand's uniquely poetic and unimpeachable way.</p>

Bread Out of Stone: Recollections, Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming, Politics

Knopf Canada

WHAT WE ALL LONG FOR / LOVE ENOUGH: TWO TORONTO NOVELS

The Blue Clerk

Poetry

Inventory: Poems

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, queen of a secret slave society called the Sans Peur Regiment, plots a mass suicide. The end of the Sans Peur is also the beginning of a new world, for Marie-Ursule cannot kill her young daughter, Bola -- who escapes to live free and bear a dynasty of descendants who spill out across the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Haunted by a legacy of passion and oppression, the children of Bola pass through two world wars and into the confusion, estrangement, and violence of the late twentieth century. "[Brand has] a lush and exuberant style that may put some readers in mind of Toni Morrison or Edwidge Danticat." -- William Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review; "A delicately structured, beautifully written novel infused with rare emotional clarity." -- Julie Wheelwright, The Independent (London); "Rich, elegiac, almost biblical in its rhythms . . . One of the essential works of our times." -- The Globe & Mail (Toronto)

At the Full and Change of the Moon

NY: Grove Press

Electric Brine

Esther Leslie

Lisa Robertson

Sophie Lewis

Barbara Orland

Hannah Landecker

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