Thirsty
This is a poem about the city. About a man who has visions, hovering on the edge but hating it, restless and at war with the world but wanting the peace that passeth understanding. Everything he does is half-done, except his death. When he falls, his parched spirit crying "thirsty," his family falls apart. This is a poem about Toronto, the city that’s never happened before, about waiting for a bus, standing on a corner, watching a stranger: the bank to one corner, the driving school on another, the milk store and the church. This is also about the poet, her own restless sensibility woven in and out through moments of lyric beauty, dramatic power and storytelling grace. It is…
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April 16, 2002
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