Inventory
In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked, What would an inventory of the tumultuous early years of this new century have to account for? Alert to the upheavals that mark those years, Brand bears powerful witness to the seemingly unending wars, the ascendance of fundamentalisms, the nameless casualties that bloom out from near and distant streets. An inventory in form and substance, Brand’s poem reckons with the revolutionary songs left to fragment, the postmodern cities drowned and blistering, the devastation flickering across TV screens grown rhythmic and predictable. Inventory is an urgent and burning lamentation.
Dionne Brand is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist.
Other publications from this author include:
- An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020)
- The Blue Clerk (2018)
- Theory (2018)
- Love Enough (2014)
- Ossuaries (2010)
- What We All Long For (2005)
- Thirsty (2002)
- A Map of the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001)
- At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999)
- Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics (1998)
- Land to Light On (1997)
- In Another Place, Not Here (1996)
- We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History (1994)
- No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s (1991)
- No Language Is Neutral (1990)
- Sans Souci, and Other Stories (1988)
- Rivers have sources, trees have roots: Speaking of racism (1986)
- Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984)
- Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defence of Claudia (1983)
- Primitive Offensive (1982)
- Fore Day Morning: Poems (1978)