In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a
passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for
psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the toxic
fallout of over-industrialization and war, these poems face the dark
side of our postmodern climate with a language that doesn't give in.
They tremble and shake, they rage against despair, they speak against
death and wrestle with the fateful spirits of Armageddon to loosen their
choke-hold on humanity. Perhaps we won't figure it out and the horizon
is already on fire, and our best love will never be more than an
approximation of regret, but grass still grows between the cement blocks
of the sidewalk to 'grin of the wild.'