Product Description: questions I asked my mother is a seminal work of both Canadian and Mennonite literature.Included in this new edition, poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald reflects on the the impact of Di Brandt's poetry undercuts centuries of patriarchal culture...read more

Product Description: Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two children...read more

Product Description: So This Is The World & Here I Am In It is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt.Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around questions of exile and violence, eros and wildness, land and mentoring, home and language...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Di Brandt forges new paths with her multi-faceted poetry, experimenting with traditional poetic forms in this new collection. Throughout, Brandt captures the human heart in love, in crisis, or in awe of the world. Science and poetry fuse with sly wit and sleight of word in Welding and other joining procedures, the first of the collection's three sections...read more

Product Description: In this ground-breaking book, writers and artists come together in conversation, interviews, poetry, fiction and creative non-fiction to reflect on the creative process. This collection displaces the long-held myth of the artist as solitary visionary with a different narrative of lively conversations across generations and among art forms...read more

Product Description: The fourth volume of The Griffin Poetry Prize Anthology includes selections from the books shortlisted for the 2004 Griffin Poetry Prizes, chosen by the jurors: Billy Collins (U.S. Poet Laureate 2001-2003), Bill Manhire (New Zealand Poet Laureate), and Phyllis Webb (recipient of the Governor General's Award for poetry), who will also provide an introduction to the book...read more

Product Description: In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the toxic fallout of over-industrialization and war, these poems face the dark side of our postmodern climate with a language that doesn't give in...read more

Product Description: Brandt travels to Jerusalem to visit a friend and to witness the intifada of occupied Palestine."The good writers offer something new--new to them and new to you. Here Di Brandt collects three long poems that bring honour to our culture...read more

Product Description: These raging and ecstatic poems speak the language of deep conversation between selves, daughters in a violent world.

Product Description: In Brandts second book of poetry, the raw vioce of repression gives way to a healed heart.These poems achieve that delicate balance between resistance and affirmation, where opposites are not rejected but burn passionately and sustain each other, as they do in our lives...read more