In this Book
- Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt
- Book
- 2006
- Published by: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Series: Laurier Poetry
Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt introduces the reader to the lyric power and political urgency of the poetry of Di Brandt, providing an overview of her poetry written during a prolific and revolutionary twenty-year period.
Beginning with her early poetic inquiries into the dynamics of gender, religion, and the politics of language, Brandt examines the use and abuse of power as a cultural issue, emphasizing cross-cultural and domestic relationships. Particularly engaged with questions of motherhood, the land, violence and reparation, feminism, and spirituality, Brandt explores ecopoetics, an ecology of poetry, as a possible antidote to the cultural despair of the twenty-first century.
Editor Tanis MacDonald's introduction outlines the major movements of Brandt's work, emphasizing the relationship of language to power and the value of a dissenting voice in a forceful cultural poetics. An afterword by Brandt completes the volume.
Table of Contents
- Biographical Note
- p. viii
- Introduction
- pp. ix-xvi
- prairie hymn
- p. 12
- let me tell you, dear reader
- pp. 14-15
- completely seduced
- pp. 16-17
- what de Englische
- pp. 18-20
- the letters i wrote & didn’t
- pp. 21-22
- poem for a guy who’s
- pp. 23-24
- death is a good argument
- pp. 25-26
- today i spit out God & Jesus
- pp. 27-28
- Zone : < le Détroit > 1
- pp. 35-36
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 55-56