So This Is The World & Here I Am In It is a stunning collection of creative essays by poet and critic Di Brandt&#46Written over a period of ten years&#44 these essays circle around questions of exile and violence&#44 eros and wildness&#44 land and mentoring&#44 home and language&#46 They are experimental engagements with a lively array of personal and cultural memories&#44 of places ranging from Winnipeg and Windsor to Berlin&#44 Germany&#44 of joyfully unruly characters in Canadian fiction&#44 of the esoteric lives of Mennonites&#44 honeybees&#44 and twins&#46