So This Is The World & 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