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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. Beginning with her early poetic inquiries into the dynamics of gender, religion, and the politics of language, Brandt examines the use and abuse of power as a cultural issue, emphasizing cross-cultural and domestic relationships. Particularly engaged with questions of motherhood, the land, violence and reparation, feminism, and spirituality, Brandt explores ecopoetics, an ecology of poetry, as a possible antidote to the cultural despair of the twenty-first century. Editor Tanis MacDonald's introduction outlines the major movements of Brandt's work, emphasizing the relationship of language to power and the value of a dissenting voice in a forceful cultural poetics. An afterword by Brandt completes the volume.
Contents
Table of Contents for Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt , selected with an introduction by Tanis MacDonald Foreword | Neil Besner Biographical Note Introduction | Tanis MacDonald when i was five but what do you think my father says say to yourself each time my mother found herself one late summer missionary position (1) missionary position (5) mother why didnt you tell me this you prepare a banquet in your mind since we cannot meet on father ground nonresistance, or love Mennonite style prairie hymn why she canât write the mother let me tell you, dear reader completely seduced what de Englische the letters i wrote & didnât poem for a guy whoâs death is a good argument today i spit out God & Jesus & it amuses us to think Jerusalem, the golden, city of my dreams there are no words in me for Gaza how long does it take to forget a murder here, in the desert how badly she wants peace Zone: âª|le Détroit> 1 Zone: âª|le Détroit> 2 Here at the heart of the ravaged heart Dog days in Maribor: Anti (electric) ghazals Not ungrateful for the attempt at proper Afterword: You pray for the rare flower to appear | Di Brandt Acknowledgements
