Mother, Not Mother: Poems By Di Brandt,
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, ragin 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
are you stillwith me,gentle reader i don t knowwhat to dowith the gunspunctuatingour pages,oh poet.i wanted the worldto be sweet,i wanted wordsto open in uslike blossoms, sighs,love soundsstead i m besidemyself, listeningto gunfire, cracklingin the night,poor reception,too much static,even tendernesscoming offlike little bombstonight,nothing healed,not eventhe fantasiesholding usin the dark,the fields we playedin last summer,closed guarded,now,against strangers,against rain pg 23 24 what de Engl [...]
I received this book from my mother when I was 14 and it still is one of my favorite poetry books.