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MAP TO THE DOOR OF NO RETURN

BRAND DIONNE

"Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of "being" in…

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Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

Examining aesthetic connections between the works of more than 50 Black artists from throughout the global diaspora

This book was born out of frustration with art histories that emphasize Black…

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In Another Place, Not Here

Dionne Brand

When two contemporary Caribbean women just happen to meet, an instant friendship and understanding forms as a yearning for each other’s life takes them to the next stage in their…

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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

Dionne Brand

How Black life is made and unmade by and in literature; arguing for new vocabularies.

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The Unpublished City: Volume I

Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents writing about their city:

Diana Biacora David Bradford Nicole Chin Simone Dalton Dalton Derkson Doyali Islam…

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The Unpublished City: Volume II

Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents writing about their city:

Diana Biacora David Bradford Nicole Chin Simone Dalton Dalton Derkson Doyali Islam…

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At the Full and Change of the Moon

Dionne Brand

Named one of the Los Angeles Times’ Ten Best Books of the Year, Brand’s second novel begins in 1824 Trinidad and spans over 100 years detailing a family’s tragic history.

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What We All Long For

Dionne Brand

Gripping at times, heart wrenching at others, this is a story of identity, love and loss in a narrative that travels from Vietnam to multi-cultural downtown Toronto.

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The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

Dionne Brand

In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand explores memory, language, culture, and the nature of writing through a series of haunting prose poems that contain dialogues between the figure…

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The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos

Dionne Brand

In The Blue Clerk renowned poet Dionne Brand explores memory, language, culture, and the nature of writing through a series of haunting prose poems that contain dialogues between the figure…

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Ossuaries

Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem - her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle…

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Chronicles: Early Works

Dionne Brand

One of Canada’s most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and…

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Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand

Dionne Brand

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…

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Earth Magic

Dionne Brand

This extraordinary illustrated collection of poems was inspired by the poet’s childhood in Trinidad.

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Nomenclature

Dionne Brand

Trenchant, lyrical and breathtaking in its cinematic sweep, the first UK poetry publication by the Canadian national treasure

A man with his head in the clouds, an artist who has…

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In This City

Austin Clarke

Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers longing for a place to call home. Private lives…

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Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems

Dionne Brand

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems collects eight volumes of Dionne Brand’s poetry published between 1983 and 2010, as well as a new long poem, the titular Nomenclature for the time…

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The Journey Prize Stories 19: The Best of Canada’s New Writers

From the best of Canada’s new writers.

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Torkwase Dyson: A Liquid Belonging

A gorgeous, performative object translating Dyson's liberatory art into book form

In her multidisciplinary practice guided by her working philosophy of Black Compositional Thought, New York-based Torkwase Dyson (born 1973)…

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Luminous Ink: Writers on Writing in Canada

Dionne Brand,Rabindranath Maharaj,Tessa McWatt

Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and twenty-five of some of Canada’s best-known writers discuss the purpose of writing in the 21st Century.

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Simone Leigh

The first major monograph on Simone Leigh's multimedia explorations of community, Black feminism and the traditions and material cultures of the African diaspora

A New York Times Book Review 2023…

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