Research Catalog

Title

Nomenclature : new and collected poems / Dionne Brand.

Author

Brand, Dionne, 1953-

Publication

• Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth

Description

li, 619 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

"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 1983 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 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' late and last 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"--

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Canadian poetry > 20th century
• Canadian poetry > 21st century
• Narrative poetry, Canadian
• Canadian poetry > Black authors
• Canadian poetry > Women authors
• Canadian poetry

Genre/Form

Poetry.

Note

• "Introduction by Christina Sharpe" -- from jacket.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

The New and Collected Poems of Dionne Brand / by Christina Sharpe -- Nomenclature for the time being -- Early Works of Dionne Brand -- No Language is Neutral -- Land to Light On -- Thirsty -- Inventory -- Ossuaries.

Call Number

Sc D 23-648

ISBN

• 9781478016625
• 1478016620

LCCN

2022028263

OCLC

1301905512

Author

Brand, Dionne, 1953- author.

Title

Nomenclature : new and collected poems / Dionne Brand.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Note

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth, writer of introduction.

Research Call Number

Sc D 23-648