{"product_id":"nomenclature-new-and-collected-poems-9781478016625","title":"Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand's ongoing labors of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and reach beyond those worlds, their enclosures, and their violences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e begins with a new long poem, the titular \u003ci\u003eNomenclature for the Time Being\u003c\/i\u003e, in which Dionne Brand's diaspora consciousness dismantles our quotidian disasters. In addition to this searing new work, \u003ci\u003eNomenclature\u003c\/i\u003e collects eight volumes of Brand's poetry published between 1982 and 2010 and includes a critical introduction by the literary scholar and theorist Christina Sharpe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e features the searching and centering cantos of \u003ci\u003ePrimitive Offensive\u003c\/i\u003e; the sharp musical conversations of \u003ci\u003eWinter Epigrams\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEpigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia\u003c\/i\u003e; and the documentary losses of revolutions in \u003ci\u003eChronicles of the Hostile Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, in which \"The street was empty\/with all of us standing there.\" \u003ci\u003eNo Language Is Neutral\u003c\/i\u003e reads language, coloniality, and sexuality as a nexus. \u003ci\u003eLand to Light On\u003c\/i\u003e writes intimacies and disaffections with nation, while in \u003ci\u003ethirsty\u003c\/i\u003e a cold-eyed flâneur surveys the workings of the city. In \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e, written during the Gulf Wars, the poet is \"the wars' last and late night witness,\" her job is not to soothe but to \"revise and revise this bristling list\/hourly.\" \u003ci\u003eOssuaries\u003c\/i\u003e' futurist speaker rounds out the collection and threads multiple temporal worlds--past, present, and future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis masterwork displays Dionne Brand's ongoing body of thought--trenchant, lyrical, absonant, discordant, and meaning-making. \u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e is classic and living, a record of one of the great writers of our age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDionne Brand is the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Award. Her other poetry collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Brand's novel, \u003ci\u003eTheory\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2019 OCM Bocas Prize for Fiction and the Toronto Book Award, and \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003c\/i\u003e won the Toronto Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include \u003ci\u003eBread Out of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2009 to 2012 Brand served as Toronto's Poet Laureate. In 2021 Brand was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize in Fiction. She lives in Toronto. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Christina Sharpe is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University and author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50626686615826,"sku":"9781478016625","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e4c8c4a2-2928-41be-ae61-9133793f28bd.jpg?v=1732665707","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/nomenclature-new-and-collected-poems-9781478016625","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}