![]() ![]() Many Trinidadians would be hard-pressed to tell you how to drive there, but for Brand, the village’s urgency as a site of childhood imagination has never faded. Brand, who lives and works in Ontario, Canada, has been publishing this kind of work, writing woven with threads of the brightly transgressive, since her first collection of poems, Fore Day Morning, published in 1978.īefore all of these stories were written, a young girl stood before a field blazing with bright orange blooms in Guayaguayare, in Trinidad’s southeastern county of Mayaro. They are audacious, shocking, and revealing in the best possible way. ![]() How’s that for prolific?īoth books are radical genre-defiers, challenging a collective Western understanding of what poetic and prose forms can offer. ![]() Her newest books, The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos and Theory, were launched on the same day in September 2018. “My biography is my books,” she tells me - and anyone who’s read her, across multiple genres, spanning decades of poetry, fiction, essays, and hybrid forms, is nodding and saying yes. ![]() Don’t take it personally, but Dionne Brand isn’t gushing to tell you her life story. ![]()
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