So this is the world and here I am in it

ISBN 978-1-897126-09-7
Paperback | 256 pages
Non-Fiction | Writer As Critic
Spring 2007

Shortlisted for the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award at the Manitoba Book Awards (winners announced on April 26, 2008)

So this is the world and here I am in it is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt. Written over a period of ten years, these essays circle around questions of exile and violence, eros and wildness, land and mentoring, home and language. They are experimental engagements with a lively array of personal and cultural memories, of places ranging from Winnipeg and Windsor to Berlin, Germany, of joyfully unruly characters in Canadian fiction, of the esoteric lives of Mennonites, honeybees, and twins.