Speaking of Power The Poetry of Di Brandt selected with an Introduction by Tanis MacDonald

BRANDT (Di)

ISBN 10: 088920506X / ISBN 13: 9780889205062

Published by Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 2006

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56pp octavo paper. slight cover wear otherwise very good.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Speaking of Power The Poetry of Di Brandt selected with an Introduction by Tanis MacDonald
• Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press, Waterloo
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 088920506X
• ISBN 13: 9780889205062
• Binding: PAPERBACK
• Edition: First edition.
• Seller catalogs:
  • POETRY

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Synopsis

Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and revolutionary twenty-year period.
Beginning with her early poetic inquiries into the dynamics of gender, religion, and the politics of language, Brandt examines the use and abuse of power as a cultural issue, emphasizing cross-cultural and domestic relationships. Particularly engaged with questions of motherhood, the land, violence and reparation, feminism, and spirituality, Brandt explores ecopoetics, an ecology of poetry, as a possible antidote to the cultural despair of the twenty-first century.
Editor Tanis MacDonald’s introduction outlines the major movements of Brandt’s work, emphasizing the relationship of language to power and the value of a dissenting voice in a forceful cultural poetics. An afterword by Brandt completes the volume.

About the Authors

Di Brandt has received numerous awards for her poetry, including the CAA National Poetry Prize, the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award, and the Gerald Lampert Award. She holds a Canada Research Chair in Creative Writing at Brandon University.

Tanis MacDonald is an associate professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Rue the Day (Turnstone Press, 2008), and the editor of Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (WLU Press, 2006). Her book The Daughter’s Way: Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies was a finalist for the 2012 ACQL Gabrielle Roy Prize for Literary Criticism.