Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand

by Dionne Brand and Leslie Catherine Sanders

Book Overview

The selections in Fierce Departures , drawn from Dionne Brand's work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates peoples of the African diaspora, how nations, concretely and conceptually, fail to create safe haven, and how human desire persists nevertheless. Through a widening canvas, Brand unfolds the (im)possibilities of belonging for those whom history has dispossessed. Yet she also shows how Canada, and in particular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554580382
• ISBN13: 9781554580385
• Release Date: February 2009
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 60 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"