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Now You Care
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AUTHOR Brandt, DiPUBLISHER Coach House BooksFORMAT Paperback$17.95 ($CDN) |
• ISBN: 1552451275
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Ecological crisis is the ground note of Now You Care, its characteristic tone a complex and compelling blend of rage, empathy, pity and celebration. In Brandt's sharp, sardonic lines, Detroit and Windsor become another wasteland, rendered with a blend of anxiety, fatalism and exasperated celebration. Brandt roams this industrial landscape like a feminist envionmentalist postmodern Apollinaire, one who finds beauty and destruction wherever she goes.
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These poesm live and breath because Brandt is reckless about everything, willing to risk her dignity and her image and even her old positions and angers to get at the true condition of present things. ----Jeff Gundy, The Georgia Review Brandt's collection is a rich and passionate call to its readers to consider the natural world in which we find ourselves and how dissonant our daily actions are with the caring that we instinctively feel for it. Through imagery that swings from bleakness, "The yard hungry for rust, seducing / dead cars in the rain," to fecundity, "shudder of pollen heavy thighs / the long slow sip of honeymead / sigh of sated petals in the wind," Brandt celebrates nature and decries the way material pursuits have led us to abandon it: "Now that it's much much too late, / now you care." In Brandt's collection, the condition of the environment is linked to contemporary political, economic and cultural conditions. As she runs through the catalogue of environmental and political ills that plague us today, from global warming to the war in Iraq, she strives to show how these conditions affect our lives and relationships, including our health. ----Nathan Stark, Echo Magazine