Nomenclature

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Spanning nearly four decades, Dionne Brand’s poetry has created new grammars and vocabularies. With a keen awareness of the present and an openness to future possibilities, Brand’s work serves as both witness and imagination, addressing the realities of our lives while transcending their confines and violences. The collection opens with a new long poem, Nomenclature for the Time Being, where Brand’s diaspora consciousness confronts everyday disasters. It also gathers eight volumes of her poetry published from 1982 to 2010, accompanied by a critical introduction from scholar Christina Sharpe. The collection showcases the introspective cantos of Primitive Offensive, the musical dialogues in Winter Epigrams, and the documentary reflections on revolutions in Chronicles of the Hostile Sun. No Language Is Neutral explores the intersections of language, coloniality, and sexuality, while Land to Light On delves into personal connections and disaffections with nationhood. In thirsty, a detached observer examines urban life, and in Inventory, written during the Gulf Wars, the poet acts as a vigilant witness, focusing on the need for continual revision. The collection concludes with Ossuaries, which weaves together multiple temporal realms. This masterwork encapsulates Brand’s rich, lyrical, and thought-provoking body of work, affirming her status as one of the great writers of our time.