Dionne Brand is well represented by Nomenclature, a collection of eight volumes of her poetry accompanied by an important new work. Beginning with Primitive Offensive (1982) and ending with Ossuaries (2010), the book confirms that Brand has always been a meticulous but dynamic stylist for whom form is motivated by the desire to take “history’s […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/02/09/reckoning-with-silence-nomenclature-dionne-brand/