Ossuaries
Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. She leads a solitary clandestine life, crossing borders actual (Algiers, Cuba, Canada), and timeless. Cold-eyed and cynical, she contemplates the periodic crises of the contemporary world. This is a work of deep engagement, sensuality, and ultimate craft from an essential observer of our time and one of the most accomplished poets writing today.
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