Ossuaries

by Dionne Brand

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771017340
• ISBN13: 9780771017346
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.0"