Brant, Beth

Beth Brant, 1941-2015, is a poet and essayist from Ontario, Canada. As a Mohawk woman, she also went by the names Degonwadonti and Kaieneke'hak. Her works center around lesbianism, domestic violence, and racial tensions for native representation.

Books:
Mohawk Trail. Firebrand Books, 1985.
Food & Spirits. Firebrand Books, 1991.
Testimony from the Faithful. 2003.

Anthologies Authored by Brant and in which Brant Appears:
Bruchac, Joseph, ed. Songs from This Earth on Turtle's Back: Contemporary American Indian Poetry. Greenfield Review Press, 1983.
Brant, Beth, ed. A Gathering of Spirit: A Collection by North American Indian Women. Firebrand Books, 1984.
Piercy, Marge, ed. Early Ripening: Poetry by Women. Pandora Books, 1987.
Roscoe, Will, ed. Living the Spirit: A Gay American Indian Anthology. St. Martin's Press, 1988.
Bruchac, Joseph, ed. New Voices from the Longhouse: An Anthology of Contemporary Iroquois Writing. Greenfield Review Press, 1989.
Lesbian Writing and Publishing Collective, ed. Dykewords: An Anthology of Lesbian Writing. Women's Press, 1990.
Barrington, Judith, ed. An Intimate Wilderness: Lesbian Writers on Sexuality. Eighth Mountain Press, 1991.
Brant, Beth, ed. Writing as Witness: Essay and Talk. Women's Press, 1994.
Brant, Beth, ed. I'll Sing `til the Day I Die: Conversations with Tyendinaga Elders. Toronto: McGilligan Books, 1995.

Essays:
Brant, Beth. "Grandmothers of a New World." IKON 8 (Spring 1990): 48-60.
Brant, Beth. "Giveaway: Native Lesbian Writers." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18 (Summer 1993): 944-947. https://doi.org/10.1086/494851.
Brant, Beth. "The Good Red Road: Journeys of Homecoming in Native Women's Writing." American Indian Culture and Research Journal 21, no. 1 (1997): 193-206. https://doi.org/10.17953.

Critical Work about Brant:
Frances, Anne Day. Lesbian and Gay Voices: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide to Literature for Children and Young Adults. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2000.
Cullum, Linda E. Contemporary American Ethnic Poets: Lives, Works, Sources. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.
Byron, Glennis and Andrew J. Sneddon. The Body and the Book: Writings on Poetry and Sexuality. Rodopi, 2008.
Kostić, Milena and Vesna Lopičić. "'I will not cease to be': Voicing the Alternative in Beth Brant's 'A Long Story.'" The Central European Journal of Canadian Studies 8, no. 1 (2012): 23-30. http://hdl.handle.net/11222.digilib/125680.
Sonneborn, Liz. A to Z of American Indian Women. Infobase Publishing, 2014.
Womack, Craig S. Art as Performance, Story as Criticism. University of Oklahoma Press, 2014.

Reviews of Brant's Work:
Jaskoski, Helen. Review of Mohawk Trail, by Beth Brant. Explorations in Sights and Sounds 9, no. 1. (1989): 9-10. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/ess/vol9/iss1/8/.
Johnson, Lisa N. Review of Food and Spirits, by Beth Brant. GLTF Newsletter 3, no. 4. (1991): 6.
Danielson, Linda L. Review of Mohawk Trail, by Beth Brant. Studies in American Indian Literatures 5, no. 1. (1993): 103-107. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20736707.
Justice, Daniel Heath. "Daniel Heath Justice recommends Writing as Witness by Beth Brant." Review of Writing as Witness, by Beth Brant. Jane van Koeverden, ed. CBC Books, 2017. http://www.cbc.ca/books/daniel-heath-justice-recommends-writing-as-witne...

Biography:
"Beth Brant" under Poets , Poetry Foundation, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/beth-brant