University of Illinois Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-252-02971-4 | eISBN: 978-0-252-09138-4 | Paper: 978-0-252-07212-3 Library of Congress Classification PR9265.9.G6C66 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex beauty of the natural world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lorna Goodison is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her work appears in the new Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and her honors include the Musgrave Gold Medal from the Institute of Jamaica and the prestigious Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan. Her previous books include To Us, All Flowers are Roses, Turn Thanks, and Travelling Mercies.
REVIEWS
"Superlatives glint all over commentary on Lorna Goodison's work these days. She is now ‘one of the greatest!,' ‘one of the most important,' ‘a singular voice,' ‘a poet of great stature' and of course ‘one of the best writing in English today.' She deserves all of this… She is solidly located in the trinity of Caribbean writing. It is now, officially, Walcott, Braithwaite and Goodison."--Kwame Dawes, Caribbean Writer
"A poetry that is both innocently free-ranging and intellectually sharp, sensuously abundant yet elegantly restrained."--Times Literary Supplement
"A world class writer."--Globe and Mail
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Island Aubade
Invocation
Dear Cousin
Excavating
Ode to the Watchman
Our Ancestral Dwellings
Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive
The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant
Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?
Jah the Baptist
Poison Crab
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labour in Vain Savannah
Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited
Aunt Albertha
Aunt Rose
The Burden Bearer
Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations
Hosay
Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle
These Three Butterflies and One Bird
The Geovangelist
Don C And the Goldman Posse
5
Back To Where We Came From
O Pirates Yes They Rob I
Tombstones
Where the Flora of Our Village Came From
By the Light of a Jamaican Moon
Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer
Hirfa of Egypt
What of Tuktoo?
Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean
Louis Galdy of the World's Once Wickedest City
Remittance Man
Black Like This?
Pleasant Sunday Evenings
Passing the Empty Playground
What the Witnesses Saw When They Entered The Balm Yard
This River Named by our Great Grandfather
River Mumma
The River Mumma Wants Out
The Wisdom Of Cousin Fool-Fool Rose
In the Field of Broken Pots
But I May Be Reborn As Keke
At Harmony Hall
Change If You Must Just Change Slow
Urban Legends
Whatever Became of MaMud?
The Yard Man: An Election Poem
Controlling the Silver
6
Old Blue Nun
Making Life
Your Ice Art, Michigan
Broadview
Missing the Goat
Spirit Catcher
The Crying Philosopher and the Laughing Philosopher
All Souls Day
Hard Food
Breadfruit Thoughts
Upon Her Wide Altar
Carnevale
Aunt Ann
San Juan Poem
Palm Roses
At the Keswick Museum
Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
Half Moon Bay
Arriving at The Airport Once Called Idlewild
Apollo Double Bill
Guernica
I Buy My Son A Reed
I Saw Charles Mingus
A Simple Apology
University of Illinois Press, 2004 Cloth: 978-0-252-02971-4 eISBN: 978-0-252-09138-4 Paper: 978-0-252-07212-3
Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex beauty of the natural world.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Lorna Goodison is an associate professor of English at the University of Michigan. Her work appears in the new Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, and her honors include the Musgrave Gold Medal from the Institute of Jamaica and the prestigious Henry Russel Award from the University of Michigan. Her previous books include To Us, All Flowers are Roses, Turn Thanks, and Travelling Mercies.
REVIEWS
"Superlatives glint all over commentary on Lorna Goodison's work these days. She is now ‘one of the greatest!,' ‘one of the most important,' ‘a singular voice,' ‘a poet of great stature' and of course ‘one of the best writing in English today.' She deserves all of this… She is solidly located in the trinity of Caribbean writing. It is now, officially, Walcott, Braithwaite and Goodison."--Kwame Dawes, Caribbean Writer
"A poetry that is both innocently free-ranging and intellectually sharp, sensuously abundant yet elegantly restrained."--Times Literary Supplement
"A world class writer."--Globe and Mail
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Island Aubade
Invocation
Dear Cousin
Excavating
Ode to the Watchman
Our Ancestral Dwellings
Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive
The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant
Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?
Jah the Baptist
Poison Crab
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labour in Vain Savannah
Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited
Aunt Albertha
Aunt Rose
The Burden Bearer
Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations
Hosay
Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle
These Three Butterflies and One Bird
The Geovangelist
Don C And the Goldman Posse
5
Back To Where We Came From
O Pirates Yes They Rob I
Tombstones
Where the Flora of Our Village Came From
By the Light of a Jamaican Moon
Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer
Hirfa of Egypt
What of Tuktoo?
Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean
Louis Galdy of the World's Once Wickedest City
Remittance Man
Black Like This?
Pleasant Sunday Evenings
Passing the Empty Playground
What the Witnesses Saw When They Entered The Balm Yard
This River Named by our Great Grandfather
River Mumma
The River Mumma Wants Out
The Wisdom Of Cousin Fool-Fool Rose
In the Field of Broken Pots
But I May Be Reborn As Keke
At Harmony Hall
Change If You Must Just Change Slow
Urban Legends
Whatever Became of MaMud?
The Yard Man: An Election Poem
Controlling the Silver
6
Old Blue Nun
Making Life
Your Ice Art, Michigan
Broadview
Missing the Goat
Spirit Catcher
The Crying Philosopher and the Laughing Philosopher
All Souls Day
Hard Food
Breadfruit Thoughts
Upon Her Wide Altar
Carnevale
Aunt Ann
San Juan Poem
Palm Roses
At the Keswick Museum
Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
Half Moon Bay
Arriving at The Airport Once Called Idlewild
Apollo Double Bill
Guernica
I Buy My Son A Reed
I Saw Charles Mingus
A Simple Apology
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC