Washington Writers' Publishing House

Testimonials

• Sharp-eyed, sharp-tongued, sharply etched and sharply worded,
  Provenance is a book of alphabets and fables, of narrative precision and verbal passion

  Campell McGrath

• …great verbal richness and ingenuity of word and mind; such a project shouldn’t work,
  going through the alphabet for poems, but obviously you torque and twist and personalize it;
  the poems are beautifully written meditations at lots of different distances. Really striking.
  Beautiful book!

  Tony Hoagland

• In Provenance, Brandel France de Bravo writes with urgency of continuous displacement, an exile status rendering her exquisitely sensitive to the textures of daily life.
  She is forever a stranger among those who do not ask ‘where I’m from, but where I’ve just come from, / which country I left last.
  ’ At home in many cultures, at home innone, this gifted poet transforms a search for identity into a voyage through language, and
  finds her true roots in the alphabet letters that generate experience. This is a remarkable first book, and an important one in our time.

  Grace Schulman