Divine Animal - by Brandon Wint (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Divine Animal is the debut poetry book by celebrated, Ontario-born poet and spoken word performer Brandon Wint. The collection is an elegant, expansive mapping of Brandon Wint's relationship to the legacy and wake of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, as one of its living, Black descendants. The Atlantic ocean is figured as both a historical site and diasporic metaphor from which to explore the complex journeys and negotiations that brought his family to Canada from Jamaica and Barbados. </p><p>Divine Animal reckons with the ways the logic of colonialism has brought humankind into an era of ecological devastation, climate change catastrophe and eco-grief. In this way, Brandon Wint offers a thoughtful, empathetic poetics that seeks to re-connect the human world with the natural world. Above all, Divine Animal is a work that lives powerfully at the intersection of celebration and grief. These poems testify to the realities of beauty on Earth, while casting a necessary eye upon the human proclivity to invent sophisticated, resilient modes of violence and inequity. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>The poems of Divine Animal witness and offer language to the unnameable. Amidst discordant stories of origins, sufferings, and volatile climate futures, Wint's voice sears with precision, softens the brutally human. In an unwrapping of myth, these poems interrogate and decolonise narratives of ocean, country and diasporic identity. Attuned to the divinity and defiance of all bodies, Wint re-members the future of all things in his stunning verse.</p><p>-Eunice Andrada, author of<em> Flood Damages</em> <br /> </p><p> </p><p>Divine Animal is a work by a poet of startling sensitivity, generously attentive to the brokenness of the modern world as to the sheer wonder of the "cosmic stream" which makes such a world possible. Wint fashions a poetry for what "cannot be ushered out of paradise" with a music that holds the human and nonhuman in each's miraculous presence. This trove means to re-member and disentangle the misshapen imaginations roving the theatre of the poet's inherited histories, but offers, too, signposts for the road beyond wreckage, where the marvel of the "unwritten song" can begin.</p><p>-- Canisia Lubrin, <em>Voodoo Hypothesis </em>& <em>The Dyzgraphxst </em></p><br>
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