Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand Helen Vendler what a poet

what a poet

pale light after the rain

or the complex mythology they evoke and the economy rooted in long traditions and rich in known

In a voice that is rich and accomplished

in which he speaks as and for a generation of Flemings

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems by Dionne Brand Helen Vendler what a poetAn immense achievement, comprising a decades long career new and collected poetry from one of Canada's most honoured and significant poetsSpanning almost four decades, Dionne Brand's poetry has given rise to whole new grammars and vocabularies. With a profound alertness that is attuned to this world and open to some other, possibly future, time and place, Brand's ongoing labours of witness and imagination speak directly to where and how we live and