{"product_id":"inventory-isbn-9780771016622","title":"Inventory","description":"In Dionne Brand’s incantatory, deeply engaged, beautifully crafted long poem, the question is asked, What would an inventory of the tumultuous early years of this new century have to account for? Alert to the upheavals that mark those years, Brand bears powerful witness to the seemingly unending wars, the ascendance of fundamentalisms, the nameless casualties that bloom out from near and distant streets.  An inventory in form and substance, Brand’s poem reckons with the revolutionary songs left to fragment, the postmodern cities drowned and blistering, the devastation flickering across TV screens grown rhythmic and predictable. \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e is an urgent and burning lamentation.“\u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e is damning without being superior, sorrowful without falling into self-pity,  joyful without becoming naive. . . . Thought-provoking. . . .What makes \u003ci\u003eInventory\u003c\/i\u003e even more powerful, and hard to put down, is Brand’s willingness to match the strength  of these desolate lists with a strength of music, dream and intimate feeling.” —\u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “You don’t read Dionne Brand, you hear her.” —\u003ci\u003eToronto Life\u003c\/i\u003eDIONNE BRAND's literary credentials are legion. Her novel \u003ci\u003eTheory\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book. Her poetry collection \u003ci\u003eThe Blue Clerk\u003c\/i\u003e was shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize and won the Trillium Book Prize. Her collection \u003ci\u003eOssuaries\u003c\/i\u003e won the Griffin Poetry Prize, and other collections have won the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Prize, and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Among her other novels, \u003ci\u003eIn Another Place, Not Here\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a \u003ci\u003eNYT Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a Best Book by the \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eAt the Full and Change of the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a Best Book by the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhat We All Long For\u003c\/i\u003e won the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing; from 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's Poet Laureate, and in 2020 she won the internationally prestigious Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. And in 2022, she became Editorial Director of Alchemy, a line of books within Knopf Canada. She lives in Toronto.II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eObserved over Miami, the city, an orange slick blister,\u003cbr\u003ethe houses, stiff-­haired organisms clamped to the earth,\u003cbr\u003eengorged with oil and wheat,\u003cbr\u003erubber and metals,\u003cbr\u003ethe total contents of the brain, the electrical\u003cbr\u003eregions of the atmosphere, water\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ecoming north, reeling, a neurosis of hinged\u003cbr\u003eclouds,\u003cbr\u003ebodies thicken, flesh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eout in immodest health,\u003cbr\u003esix boys, fast food on their breath,\u003cbr\u003eluscious paper bags, the perfume of grilled offal,\u003cbr\u003etroughlike cartons of cola,\u003cbr\u003ea gorgon luxury of electronics, backward caps,\u003cbr\u003ebulbous clothing, easy hearts\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003elines of visitors are fingerprinted,\u003cbr\u003eeye-­scanned, grow murderous,\u003cbr\u003ethen there’s the business of thoughts\u003cbr\u003ewho can glean with any certainty,\u003cbr\u003ethe guards, blued and leathered, multiply\u003cbr\u003eto stop them,\u003cbr\u003epalimpsests of old borders, the sea’s graph on the skin,\u003cbr\u003ethe dead giveaway of tongues,\u003cbr\u003esoon, soon, the implants to discern lies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003efrom the way a body moves\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethere’s that already\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eshe felt ill, wanted\u003cbr\u003eto murder the six boys, the guards,\u003cbr\u003ethe dreamless shipwrecked\u003cbr\u003eburning their beautiful eyes in the patient queue\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *  *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet’s go to the republic of home,\u003cbr\u003elet’s forget all this then, this victorious procession,\u003cbr\u003ethese blenching queues,\u003cbr\u003ethis timeless march of nails in shoeless feet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ewhat people will take and give,\u003cbr\u003ethe passive lines, the passive guards,\u003cbr\u003eif passivity can be inchoate self-­loathing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eall around, and creeping\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eself-­righteous, let’s say it, fascism,\u003cbr\u003ehow else to say, border,\u003cbr\u003eand the militant consumption of everything,\u003cbr\u003ethe encampment of the airport, the eagerness\u003cbr\u003eto be all the same, to mince biographies\u003cbr\u003eto some exact phrases, some\u003cbr\u003eexact and toxic genealogyPoems","brand":"McClelland \u0026 Stewart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233273164005,"sku":"NP9780771016622","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771016622.jpg?v=1767730157","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/inventory-isbn-9780771016622","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}