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| Title: | So This is the World & Here I Am in It
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| Series: | (Writer as Critic Series, Volume X) |
| Author: | Di Brant |
| ISBN: | 1897126093 : 9781897126097 |
| Illustrations: | b/w photos & illus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Size: | 155x230mm |
| Pages: | 246 |
| Weight: | .418 Kg. |
| Published: | Newest Press - May 2007 |
| List Price: | 14.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: | In Print |
| Subjects: | Essays; journals; letters & other prose works: Canada |
This is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around questions of exile and violence, eros and wildness, land and mentoring, home and language. They are experimental engagements with a lively array of personal and cultural memories, of places ranging from Winnipeg and Windsor to Berlin, Germany, of joyfully unruly characters in Canadian fiction, of the esoteric lives of Mennonites, honeybees, and twins.
"Infuriating and enthralling, Di Brandt doesn’t let readers off easy. Brandt is immensely skillful in combining personal narrative with academic critique. In her beautifully written style - she is, after all, a poet - she is conversationally engaging yet wholly critical." -- Jay Smith in See Magazine (Edmonton), March 29th, 2007. "...best display[s] the combination of her literary voice
with an intellectual argument drawn from personal experience." -- Quill & Quire, May 2007.
