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Dionne Brand OC (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was Toronto's third Poet Laureate from September 2009 to November 2012. She was admitted to the Order of Canada in 2017.

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I felt the unordinary romance of
women who love women for the first time.

Firsts, Love, Romance, Sexuality, Women

Cities collect people, stray and lost and deliberate arrivants.

Arrivants, Cities, Collect, Lost, People

Fashions are not fashions at all but refashioning; language is not communication but reinvention. They are never in place but on display.

Communication, Fashion, Fashions, Language, Reinvention

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.

Believe, Inevitability Of Death, Passion, Rages, Uncontrollable

If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

Air, Apartments, Cities, City, Discomforts, Hands

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words.

Book, Eye, Leaving, Moving, Turning

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Arthur Twining Hadley

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