No Language Is Neutral [Paperback]

Dionne Brand (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 24, 1998

A joyful, imagistic discovery of woman as speaker and subject. As a woman, a black, and a lesbian, Brand arrives at a rigorous and nakedly ruthless reclamation of the poetic.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“With her amazing gaze and extraordinary skill, Dionne Brand has once again given us a collection of poetry both complex and unerring in its vision, integrity, sense of history. Brand understands the vivacity of the past, the strength of ancestral voices, and integrates these in a poetry astonishing in its ability to sing to us, to move us, to make us remember. A major work by a brilliant poet.”
–Michelle Cliff

“Dionne Brand’s voice is unique, elegiac…she uses language to disturb. As water in a pool is, by a stone’s throw, disturbed, distorted. English unleased.”
–Dorothy Livesay

“No Language Is Neutral is a gathering of thoughtful meaning and of strong beautiful images which cannot leave anyone neutral”
–Nicole Brossard

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A joyful, imagistic discovery of woman as speaker and subject. As a woman, a black, and a lesbian, Brand arrives at a rigorous and nakedly ruthless reclamation of the poetic.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 56 pages
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart (October 24, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0771016468
• ISBN-13: 978-0771016462
• Product Dimensions: 5.8 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #939,023 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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