AGNES IN THE SKY, Poems by Di Brandt (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Di Brandt. Published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, MN., 1990, 1st Edition, (2nd Printing 1991). FLAT SIGNED by the Author on the title page. Printed in Canada by Kromar Printing Ltd. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with a hint of age-yellowing. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.25 x 5.25 inch, 65 pages.  

AGNES IN THE SKY, Poems by Di Brandt, "will deepen our attention and admiration for Brandt's writing talents and fierce desire for female freedom and human wholeness. Her work reclaims the legitimacy of art as both political and therapeutic, reclaims its agency and tribal magic." -Libby Scheier

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Di Brandt was born in Winkler, Manitoba in 1952 and grew up in Reinland, a conservative Mennonite village in Southern Manitoba. She has earned degrees from the University of Manitoba and the University of Toronto. She has taught creative writing and English at the University of Winnipeg and is a former poetry editor of the journals Prairie Fire, Contemporary Verse 2, and HERizons. Brandt was awarded the Gerald H. Lampert award for Questions I Asked My Mother in 1987 and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award for Agnes in the Sky in 1991. She has also been nominated for the Governor General's Award for Poetry and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

1st Edition & Signed by Author  

ISBN: 9780888011504  

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