In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the toxic fallout of over-industrialization and war, these poems face the dark side of our postmodern climate with a language that doesn't give in. They tremble and shake, they rage against despair, they speak against death and wrestle with the fateful spirits of Armageddon to loosen their choke-hold on humanity. Perhaps we won't figure it out and the horizon is already on fire, and our best love will never be more than an approximation of regret, but grass still grows between the cement blocks of the sidewalk to 'grin of the wild.'
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Di Brandt. Now You Care
NOW You Care
ZONE
Zone: <le Détroit>
Afterworlds
Castle walk
The poets visit the Rosewell Arms
A modest proposal
St. Norbert in August
St. Norbert in July
Accidentally
Dog days in Maribor. Anti (electric) ghazals
Tally
The poets reflect on their craft
Forest slippers
Wake up. Four quartets
Interspecies communication
Songs for a divorce
Portrait of the artist as a young hero
Dreamsongs for Eden
Horizon on fire
Which side of the ocean
Exhibition notes
HEART
Heart
Notes and acknowledgements
About the Author
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NOW YOU CARE
For the dawn, disgrace is the day to come; for the twilight the night which engulfs it. Formerly there were people of the dawn. Here we are, perhaps, at this hour of nightfall. But why crested like larks?
