QUESTIONS I ASKED MY MOTHER, Poems by Di Brandt (1st Ed. SIGNED)

Author: Di Brandt. Published by Turnstone Press, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1987, (5th Printing 1992). 1st Edition. SIGNED and dedicated by the Author. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 5.5 x 8.5 inch, 54 pages.  

QUESTIONS I ASKED MY MOTHER, Di Brandt's first book of poetry undercuts centuries of patriarchal culture. Powerful and lyrical, filled with humour and intelligence, her language enfolds desire and hate, birth and death, mother and child. Hers is a stunning new voice in Canadian Poetry.

"God breathed into Adam's nostrils the 'breath of life'. Read these poems and you will hear a Mennonite Eve stealing some breath for herself...you can feel the warmth of the poet's breath, sometimes gasping, sometimes singing, always affirming life itself. Read these poems and they will take your breath away." -Reviewed by Magdalene Redekop

• Winner of the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (League of Canadian Poets).
• Nominated for the Governor-Generals Award for Poetry and the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

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: 9780888011156  

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