About the authors
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.
About the Editor: Barbara Godard is a founding co-editor of Tessera, and teaches English literature and Women's Studies at York University. She has translated a number of Quebec feminist writers including France Theoret and Nicole Brossard. She is the editor/author of several books including Gynocritics/Gynocritiques: Feminist Approaches to the Writing of Canadian and Quebec Women and Audrey Thomas: Her Life and Work.
Other titles by
Sweetest Dance On Earth, The
New and Selected
Glitter and Fall
questions I asked my mother
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
Now You Care
Dancing Naked
Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries
Other titles by
Wider Boundaries of Daring
The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry
Canadian Literature at the Crossroads of Language and Culture
The Tale of Don L'Orignal
Intimate Journal
Collaboration in the Feminine
Writings on Women and Culture from Tessera
Audrey Thomas
Gynocritics/La Gynocritique
Feminist Approaches to Canadian and Quebec Women's Writing