Nomenclature And Collected Poems - Dionne Brand

An Immense Achievement, Comprising A Decades-long Career - And Collected Poetry From One Of Canadas Most Honoured And Significant Poets Spanning Almost Four Decades, Dionne Brands Poetry Has Given Rise To Whole Grammars And Vocabularies. With A Profound Alertness That Is Attuned To This World And Open To Some Other, Possibly Future, Time And Place, Brands 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: And Collected Poems Begins With A Long Poem, The Titular Nomenclature For The Time Being, In Which Dionne Brands Diaspora Consciousness Dismantles Our Quotidian Disasters.