Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand Helen Vendler they reinvigorate how these violences

they reinvigorate how these violences can be understood

or the complex mythology they evoke and the economy rooted in long traditions and rich in known

’— Tamar Yoseloff‘Poignant hymns to the transformative nature of life’s experiences

they elevate it “higher than the dome of thought”

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand Helen Vendler they reinvigorate how these violencesAn immense achievement, comprising a decades long career new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning 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