“Each poem . . . looks us straight in the eyes and confronts us . . . mocks attitudes that lie deep within our culture.”

— SUSAN MUSGRAVE, The Vancouver Sun

“Dumont undercuts the rhetoric of Canadian intervention and reminds readers that the desire to join both coasts of the country came at a heavy price . . . . Dumont employs her own discursive strategies to ensure that the irony of the Métis population’s survival is communicated . . . [A Really Good Brown Girl] cultivates its own space of in-between-ness.”

— JENNIFER ANDREWS, Canadian Poetry

“Marilyn Dumont’s A Really Good Brown Girl is an impressive first book of poems, not only for its firm grasp of poetic measure, but also for its playful ways of thrusting and parrying with tradition”

— GARY GEDDES, BC Bookworld

“The collection as a whole is a spirited dance in words, fully engaged with physical sensation, shifting from the linearity of forthright statement to cadenced, lyrical turns.”

— BARBARA CAREY, The Malahat Review

“Dumont forces the reader to look through her eyes at what is really there. It is not always easy to read her words, and the imagery she conveys packs a wallop to the senses . . . Marilyn Dumont has proven to be a writer to be reckoned with.”

— NANCY COOPER, Arc Poetry Magazine

“A Really Good Brown Girl offers students not only well-written poems to study, but an analysis of Canadian society that must be addressed.”

— HARRIETT ZAIDMAN, Canadian Materials