{"product_id":"ossuaries-9780771017346","title":"Ossuaries","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eOssuaries\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDIONNE BRAND's literary credentials are legion. Her novel \u003ci\u003eTheory\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book. Her poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Prize. Her collection \u003ci\u003eOssuaries\u003c\/i\u003e won the Griffin Poetry Prize, and other collections have won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Prize, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Among her other novels, \u003ci\u003eIn Another Place, Not Here\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a \u003ci\u003eNYT Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book by the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAt the Full and Change of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a Best Book by the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003c\/i\u003e won the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing; from 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's Poet Laureate, and in 2020 she won the internationally prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. And in 2022, she became Editorial Director of Alchemy, a line of books within Knopf Canada. She lives in Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50444413075730,"sku":"9780771017346","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cc9d12ac-b7d4-4ec1-8187-091d71ad8cf7.jpg?v=1729682535","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ossuaries-9780771017346","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}