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Brand Dionne
What We All Long For
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Dionne Brand powerfully delves into uncharted aspects of urban life, the bittersweetness of youth, and secrets families try to hide. Tuyen is an aspiring artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who’ve never recovered from losing one of their children while in the rush to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. She rejects her immigrant family’s hard-won lifestyle, and instead lives in a rundown apartment with friends—each of whom is grappling with their own familial complexities and heartache. In turns thrilling and heartbreaking, Tuyen’s lost brother—who has since become a criminal in the Thai underworld—journeys to Toronto to find his long-lost family. As Quy’s arrival nears, tensions build, friendships are tested, and an unexpected encounter will forever alter the lives of Tuyen and her friends. Gripping at times, heartrending at others, What We All Long For is an ode to a generation of longing and identity, and to the rhythms and pulses of a city and its burgeoning, questioning youth.
In Another Place, Not Here
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Acclaimed by Adrienne Rich as "fierce, sensuous . . . a work of great beauty and moral imagination," In Another Place, Not Here tells of two contemporary Caribbean women who find brief refuge in each other on an island in the midst of political uprising. Elizete, dreaming of running to another place to escape the harshness of her daily life on the island, meets Verlia, an urban woman in constant flight who has returned to her island birthplace with hopes of revolution. Their tumultuous story moves between city and island, past and future, fantasy and reality.
This is poet, essayist, and film-maker Dionne Brand's first novel. The same sensuous language and imagery that informs her other work is present in this story of two contemporary Caribbean women. Elizete and Verlia appear to be opposites. Elizete is a poor islander who dreams of escaping to a life of freedom and prosperity in a city. Verlia is a jaded Canadian who leaves Toronto to return to her island homeland where she hopes to find revolution and authenticity. Each woman sees her fantasy in the other, comparing their urban and rural lifestyles, material wealth and poverty, and different spiritualities. While this book is certainly about the differences between the two women's lives, it is also very much about the power of our fantasies and how we project onto people the things we want to see. Brand's supple, poetic prose is well-suited for her many-textured subject. --Rebecca Brown
At the Full and Change of the Moon
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Written with lyrical fire in a chorus of vividly rendered voices, Dionne Brand's second novel is an epic of the African diaspora across the globe. It begins in 1824 on Trinidad, where Marie-Ursule, queen of a secret slave society called the Sans Peur Regiment, plots a mass suicide. The end of the Sans Peur is also the beginning of a new world, for Marie-Ursule cannot kill her young daughter, Bola -- who escapes to live free and bear a dynasty of descendants who spill out across the Caribbean, North America, and Europe. Haunted by a legacy of passion and oppression, the children of Bola pass through two world wars and into the confusion, estrangement, and violence of the late twentieth century. "[Brand has] a lush and exuberant style that may put some readers in mind of Toni Morrison or Edwidge Danticat." -- William Ferguson, The New York Times Book Review; "A delicately structured, beautifully written novel infused with rare emotional clarity." -- Julie Wheelwright, The Independent (London); "Rich, elegiac, almost biblical in its rhythms . . . One of the essential works of our times." -- The Globe & Mail (Toronto)
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
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A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, A Map to the Door of No Return, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history -- the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.
Ossuaries
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Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem – her first book of poetry in four years, is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. She leads a solitary clandestine life, crossing borders actual (Algiers, Cuba, Canada), and timeless. Cold-eyed and cynical, she contemplates the periodic crises of the contemporary world. This is a work of deep engagement, sensuality, and ultimate craft from an essential observer of our time and one of the most accomplished poets writing today.
Sans Souci and Other Stories
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A moving collection from one of the foremost Canadian writers of her generation.
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Women's Wear Daily - May 17, 540
"I'm brand new [at collecting]. I'm like a little baby — I'm still in the $500 range," she said. After dinner, the singer performed in the garden for the crowd of 20-somethings who flooded in after 9 pm and got the all the jaded New Yorkers singing
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New Suits Cause Challenges for Paralympians - SwimmingWorldMagazine.com
SwimmingWorldMagazine.com, AZ - May 17, 4327
New Suits Cause Challenges for ParalympiansUS Paralympic Men's Team Member Alex Dionne, however, experienced a very different incident in Beijing when he wore his modified, full-body, blueseventy nero comp. "The suit wasn't tight enough and it filled up with water," said Dionne,
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George S. Foster III - Antiques and the Arts Online
Antiques and the Arts Online, CT - May 17, 6950
Antiques and the Arts OnlineGeorge S. Foster IIIADVERTISING to inc: Socony oil can, asst. adv. tins, stenciled dressmaker sign, Standard 5 Cent Hot Peanut dispenser, Fresh Roasted Peanut Cart (rough as found), 3 Dionne Quints fans,Will Rodgers Movie Poster (as is) CLOCKS inc: Aubertin a Beaune
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AM Stir - Florida Times-Union
Florida Times-Union, FL - May 17, 3931
AM StirWhat would Dionne Warwick have done without Burt Bacharach and maybe vice versa? Together, they produced record after record that made it to the top of the music charts. "Never have land and water more reluctantly parted than in Georgia.
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'We were teased for rapping about God' - The Voice
The Voice, UK - May 11, 2009
The Voice'We were teased for rapping about God'Here, they talk to Dionne Grant about their brand of gospel garage and how they make it accessible to the mainstream. For all those unfamiliar with Commission, tell me who you are. Bless: We are two young men hailing from west London, who have been on
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