Listening for Something Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation

The nation the country where do we belong in it In this film through conversation and poetry two poets meet for the telling and the listening Adrienne Rich is a distinguished American feminist poet and author of numerous books of prose poetry essays and speeches Dionne Brand is a TrinidadianCanadian femininst poet writer and filmmaker Incisive and inquisitive the two women meet to discuss the world as they each see it Claiming any subject they talk about events as they see them analytic contemplative honest and open ended Topics include political issues feminism racism and lesbianism among others The viewer is invited into the exchange by the familiar images of two women talking intimately around a kitchen table in corridors or casually outdoors in the United States Tobago and Canada Shot in black and white and in colour the conversation takes us over the territories of their poetry