{"product_id":"nomenclature-9781478016625","title":"Nomenclature","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e collects eight volumes of Dionne Brand’s poetry published between 1983 and 2010, as well as a new long poem, the titular \u003ci\u003eNomenclature for the time being\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through her storytelling and activism, Brand has always found ways to respond to and reflect the times. One thread remains clear in her work: Her commitment to Toronto is her commitment to people, histories, stories and the expressions of this place and beyond. The city might try to cling to the poet and all of her magnificence, but Dionne Brand is still imagining better worlds.\" -- Huda Hassan * Chatelaine *\u003cbr\u003e\"Taken together, these poems reflect the work of someone aching to find a place where 'to be awake is \/ more lovely than dreams.'\" -- Layla Benitez-James * Harriet *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNomenclature\u003c\/i\u003e is driven by sedate yet sparkling agonies that invent and occupy the limbo between blues spaciousness and frenzied free improvisation. . . . How does a black poet deliver her perspective ceremoniously, as stark ritual, without pandering to the expectation that she dress these deliveries up in myths and larger-than-life antics so that readers do not feel implicated by direct address? Brand shows us how by doing just that and whether or not the revolution she imagined comes, this is a revolutionary act, to not act but to be so precisely that each small degree of change rivets and ripples as a self-contained justice that needs no codifying in outside laws.\" -- Harmony Holiday * 4Columns *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eNomenclature\u003c\/i\u003e . . . confirms that Brand has always been a meticulous but dynamic stylist for whom form is motivated by the desire to take 'history's pulse . . . with another hand'—to replace orthodox understandings of time and place with an art that speaks 'the whole immaculate language of the ravaged world.' . . . There is an uncensored quality to these poems, which often channel the exasperated momentum of someone eager to pull the wool off the reader's eyes.\" -- Anahid Nersessian * New York Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"This expansive collection brings together eight books of poetry written over four decades. It’s a gripping catalogue of witness and a call to imagine a better world.\" -- Michael Holtmann * Center for the Art of Translation *\u003cbr\u003e\"It is, believe you me, a goddamn treat. . . . Brand is one of our greatest living poets. In artistry she has scaled the heights of a Neruda or an Eliot. An insistence on witness and liberation for all is the spine of every book. She finds innovative and exemplary language for the most painful, quotidian, and visible parts of life and political structure. Let us give her her rightful flowers already.\" -- Sarah Thankam Mathews * Lux *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction \/ Christina Sharpe  xvii\u003cbr\u003e Nomenclature for the Time Being  1\u003cbr\u003e Primitive Offensive  71\u003cbr\u003e Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia  119\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWinter Epigrams\u003c\/i\u003e  121\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEpigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia\u003c\/i\u003e  141\u003cbr\u003e Chronicles of the Hostile Sun  163\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLanguages\u003c\/i\u003e  165\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSieges\u003c\/i\u003e  181\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMilitary Occupations\u003c\/i\u003e  188\u003cbr\u003e No Language is Neutral  223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHard Against the Soul I\u003c\/i\u003e  225\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReturn\u003c\/i\u003e  227\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Language is Neutral\u003c\/i\u003e  238\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHard Against the Soul\u003c\/i\u003e  251\u003cbr\u003e Land to Light On  269\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eI Have Been Losing Roads\u003c\/i\u003e  271\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll That Has Happened Since\u003c\/i\u003e  286\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLand to Light On\u003c\/i\u003e  305\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDialectics\u003c\/i\u003e  311\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIslands Vanish\u003c\/i\u003e  330\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThrough My Imperfect Mouth and Life and Way\u003c\/i\u003e  335\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery Chapter of the World\u003c\/i\u003e  341\u003cbr\u003e Thirsty  357\u003cbr\u003e Inventory  411\u003cbr\u003e Ossuaries  497\u003cbr\u003e Notes  615\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  619","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49530761412951,"sku":"9781478016625","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478016625.jpg?v=1731880438","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nomenclature-9781478016625","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}