Dancing Naked
Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries
- Publisher
- The Mercury Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 1998
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781551280349
- Publish Date
- Sep 1998
- List Price
- $16.50
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Description
Dancing Naked is a compilation of Di Brandt’s essays on her past as a Mennonite woman, on language and community, and on poetics. Lyrical, pointed, open, and embracing, Dancing Naked also tells the story of a life lived through the direct confrontation of fear and rigidity, through to a revisioning of community and hope. Di Brandt’s essays have appeared in a variety of books and magazines across the country.
About the author
Winnipeg's Di Brandt is one of Canada's most loved and admired poets. Her internationally celebrated and award-winning poetry titles include questions I asked my mother; Agnes in the sky; Jerusalem, beloved; and Now You Care. Her most recent work, Walking to Mojacar, is a multilingual collaboration with gifted poets and translators Charles LeBlanc of St. Boniface, Manitoba (l'appétit du compteur : poèmes accumulés), and Ari Belathar, Mexican writer-in-exile, currently living in Vancouver (The Cities I Have Left Behind). Mojacar was shortlisted for two 2011 Manitoba Book awards, and has been nominated for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Di Brandt has lived in Winnipeg, Edmonton, Toronto, Windsor (Ontario) and Berlin. She currently holds a Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at Brandon University, Manitoba (www.dibrandt.ca). Di Brandt is also an award-winning essayist and literary critic, and has collaborated with numerous other writers, critics and artists, including Annie Jacobsen, Jane Finlay-Young, Barbara Godard, Aganetha Dyck, Rebecca Campbell, Carol Ann Weaver and Jana Skarecky.
Other titles by
Sweetest Dance On Earth, The
New and Selected
Glitter and Fall
questions I asked my mother
ReGenerations
Canadian Women Poets in Conversation
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Walking to Mojácar
Watermelon Syrup
A Novel
So this is the world & Here I am in it
Speaking of Power
The Poetry of Di Brandt
