Land to Light On
Land to Light On opens onto the landscape of Canada. “Out here I am . . . not even safe as the sea,” she writes. “If I am peaceful . . . is not peace,/is getting used to harm.” Brand writes about a place where she is an outsider—as any poet or painter must be—and also about the many outsiders who have come here and settled over the years, uncomfortable with the land and its people, uncomfortable sometimes with themselves.
No one writes about this country like Brand, free of post-colonial cant yet selvedged with Black suffering in the Americas. Speaking of memory but without a longing for the past, these poems hover between…
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April 5, 1997
DIONNE BRAND is the award-winning author of twenty-three books of poetry, fiction and nonfiction. Her twelve books of poetry include Land to Light On; thirsty; Inventory; Ossuaries; The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos; and Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems. Her six works of fiction include At the Full and Change of the Moon; What We All Long For; Love Enough; and Theory. Her nonfiction work includes Bread Out of Stone and A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging.
Brand is the recipient of numerous literary prizes, among them the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Toronto Book Award, the Trillium Book Prize, the OCM Bocas Prize, and the 2021 Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She is the Editorial Director…
Salvage
Dionne Brand
A Map to the Door of No Return
Dionne Brand
Sans Souci
Dionne Brand
Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Dionne Brand
What We All Long For / Love Enough
Dionne Brand
Bread Out of Stone
Dionne Brand
Theory
Dionne Brand
The Blue Clerk
Dionne Brand
Love Enough
Dionne Brand
What We All Long For
Dionne Brand
Ossuaries
Dionne Brand
The Journey Prize Stories 19
Selected by Caroline Adderson, David Bezmozgis, and Dionne Brand
Inventory
Dionne Brand