So this is the world & Here I am in it
- Publisher
- NeWest Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2006
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897126097
- Publish Date
- Dec 2006
- List Price
- $24.95
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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. They are experimental engagements with a lively array of personal and cultural memories, of places ranging from Winnipeg and Windsor to Berlin, Germany, of joyfully unruly characters in Canadian fiction, of the esoteric lives of Mennonites, honeybees, and twins.
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
Speaking of Power
The Poetry of Di Brandt
Now You Care
Dancing Naked
Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries