Wild Mother Dancing challenges the historical absence of the mother, who, as subject and character, has been repeatedly suppressed and edited out of the literary canon. In her search for sources for telling the new (or old, forbidden story) against a tradition of narrative absence, Brandt turns to Canadian fiction representing a varety of cultural traditions - Margaret Laurence, Daphne Marlatt, Jovette Marchessault, Joy Kogawa, Sky Lee - and a collection of oral interviews about childbirth told by Mennonite women. The results broaden, enrich, and finally recover the motherstory in ways that have revolutionary implications for our institutions and imaginations.

Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature

Literature & Fiction

Brandt, Di

History & Criticism

University of Manitoba Press

Winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets).Nominated for the Governor-Generals Award for Poetry and the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Di Brandts first book of poetry is a deep, cutting exploration of patriarchy within the Mennonite tradition.You can feel the warmth of the poets breath, sometimes gasping, sometimes singing, always affirming life itself. Read these poems. They will take your breath away.Magdalene Redekop

Questions I Asked My Mother

Brandt, Diana

Poetry

Turnstone Pr

In Brandts second book of poetry, the raw vioce of repression gives way to a healed heart.These poems achieve that delicate balance between resistance and affirmation, where opposites are not rejected but burn passionately and sustain each other, as they do in our lives.Erin Mour

Agnes in the Sky

Di Brandt forges new paths with her multi-faceted poetry, experimenting with traditional poetic forms in this new collection. Throughout, Brandt captures the human heart in love, in crisis, or in awe of the world. Science and poetry fuse with sly wit and sleight of word in Welding and other joining procedures, the first of the collections three sections. Human love becomes nuclear fusion and other scientific meldings with delightful tongue-in-cheek language.Hymns for Detroit employs the traditional German hymn to fuse the sense of place of an economically crushed city with current political and ecological climate: Big trucks drive by/ on big noisy wheels./ Jesus saves./ Mummy said dont eat/ the fish,/ watch them on TV.The last section, Walking to Mojcar, transports readers to exotic eastern Spain bringing the Canadian experience with it. The Calgary Stampede meets the sunblasted desert valleys of southern Spain in Rodeo. Vivid images of Spain juxtaposed with Brandts prairie roots transport the reader to a world of olive groves, mesetas, flowers and bright colours.

Walking to Mojácar (English, French, German and Spanish Edition)

Turnstone Press

questions I asked my mother is a seminal work of both Canadian and Mennonite literature.Included in this new edition, poet and scholar Tanis MacDonald reflects on the the impact of Di Brandt's poetry undercuts centuries of patriarchal culture. Powerful and lyrical, filled with humour and intelligence, [Brandt's] language enfolds desire and hate, birth and death, mother and child."You can feel the warmth of the poets breath, sometimes gasping, sometimes singing, always affirming life itself. Read these poems. They will take your breath away."--Magdalene Redekop

Glitter and Fall

Since her debut in 1987 with questions I asked my mother, Di Brandt has remained curious, still asking questions and pushing poetic bounds. Now for the first time, the best work of this Griffin Award winning poet has been gathered together in one place. Distilled into one collection is Di Brandt's insatiable desire to understand, question and show the world in a new light. From her feminist work to her eco poetics, readers will get a chance to see the breathtaking career of one of Canada's most influential poets.

The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected

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.

Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (Laurier Poetry)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Wilfrid Laurier University Press

"di brandt?s mother, not mother probes the reality of a life filled with dualities and uncertainties... [it] stands as testimony to the remarkable range of poetic devices brandt uses in expressing her worded truths."? Books in Canada"di brandt?s poems spill out of their taut couplet form into the reader?s listening heart. These are miraculously wide-open poems, raging and ecstatic, speaking always the language of a woman who has eaten the dragon and lived to sing of it to us, intimately, insistently, the language of deep conversation between selves, daughters in a violent world."? Daphne Marlatt

Mother, Not Mother

Mercury Pr

Dancing Naked is a compilation of Di Brandt's essays on her past as a Mennonite woman, on language and community, and on poetics. Lyrical, pointed, open, and embracing, Dancing Naked also tells the story of a life lived through the direct confrontation of fear and rigidity, through to a re-visioning of community and hope. Di Brandt's essays have appeared in a variety of books and magazines across the country.

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

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Wild Mother Dancing: Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature

Questions I Asked My Mother

Agnes in the Sky

Walking to Mojácar (English, French, German and Spanish Edition)

Questions I Asked My Mother

Glitter and Fall

The Sweetest Dance on Earth: New and Selected

Speaking of Power: The Poetry of Di Brandt (Laurier Poetry)

Mother, Not Mother

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries