A Map to the Door of No Return
Notes to Belonging
“One enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.”
Now entering its third decade in print, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a disquisition on ‘being’ in the Black diaspora.
“This book is a world, a triumph of art and thought, a compass for the ages.” —David Chariandy
Since its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking disquisition on being in the Black diaspora, A Map to the Door of No Return, has emerged as a modern classic. The door, in Brand’s iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the…
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April 25, 2023
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…
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A Map to the Door of No Return
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Sans Souci
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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems
Dionne Brand
What We All Long For / Love Enough
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Bread Out of Stone
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Theory
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The Blue Clerk
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Love Enough
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What We All Long For
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Ossuaries
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The Journey Prize Stories 19
Selected by Caroline Adderson, David Bezmozgis, and Dionne Brand
Inventory
Dionne Brand