A Whorl of Poetry

Index of Authors

Mother, Not Mother

death is a good argument. better than fathers, better than God. better than any of the twisted reasons you gave me, in my face, my arms, bones, shiners, lighting us together into the night. -- From "death is a good argument" Mother, Not Mother (1992), p. 51.

Links: Google DB categ A short bio online at York U site. Another short bio at the writers' union site. Other Di Brandt, from questions i asked my mother: trying to climb to you here in the present i keep slipping back you can't make anything disappear all the horizontal theories in the world can't make the distance between us less round the direction toward you less up & down

Di Brandt has written at least the following books:

• Jerusalem Beloved (1995)
• Mother, Not Mother (1992)
• Agnes in the sky
• questions i asked my mother (1987)