wyszukanych pozycji: 13
From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
ISBN: 9780061337567 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, he gives his name to what will become his family's home for generations. For Doris, Harvey River is the place she always called home, the place where she was one of the "fabulous Harvey girls," and where the rich local bounty of Lucea yams, pimentos, and mangoes went hand in hand with the Victorian niceties of her parents' house. It is a place she will return to in dreams when her fortunes change, years later, and she and her husband, Marcus... When Doris Harvey's English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of a path cut by the feet of those running from slavery, h... |
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60,08 zł |
By Love Possessed: Stories
ISBN: 9780062127358 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A beautifully written and evocative book." "Written by the hand of a poet, the prose in this collection is consistently beautiful." "I love the tender beautiful writing; I love the characters, and in many ways it felt as if I had met them before....I just love this book." "A beautifully written and evocative book." |
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68,67 zł |
Redemption Ground: Essays and Adventures
ISBN: 9781550656213 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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77,09 zł |
Goldengrove : New and Selected Poems
ISBN: 9781857548488 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) Presents a varied selection of poems from "Travelling Mercies" (2001) and "Controlling the Silver" (2004), together with twenty other poems. Moving between standard English and the speech of her guinea woman grandmother, and between story and song, the aut
Presents a varied selection of poems from "Travelling Mercies" (2001) and "Controlling the Silver" (2004), together with twenty other poems. Moving be...
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54,54 zł |
New Voices: Selected by Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017-2020
ISBN: 9789766407858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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108,22 zł |
Turn Thanks: Poems
ISBN: 9780252067884 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William Wordsworth, Vincent Van Gogh, the Wild Woman. Whether you will receive this letter or not I cannot tell, she writes, Still, I intend to send it ....
The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh col...
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67,64 zł |
Collected Poems
ISBN: 9781784106386 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 622 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and Canada where she has made her teaching career, but always re-connecting with her Caribbean roots. She travels with an ear alert to histories and voices. How differently English sounds in the tropics and in colder lands, at seaside in sunlight and on prairies, mountains and in cities. The same words say quite different things, depending on who speaks them and who's listening, obeying or resisting. She covers a wide range of subjects and themes,...
Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and ...
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101,79 zł |
Controlling the Silver
ISBN: 9780252072123 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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.
Poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbe...
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78,06 zł |
Oracabessa
ISBN: 9781847772428 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) A colourful new collection by one of the outstanding Caribbean poets of our time.
A colourful new collection by one of the outstanding Caribbean poets of our time.
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70,98 zł |
Mother Muse
ISBN: 9781550655988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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72,80 zł |
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses: Poems
ISBN: 9780252064593 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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93,67 zł |
From Harvey River: A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island
ISBN: 9781843549963 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych (dostawa w 2025) In her lovingly written, richly imaginative and effortlessly joyful memoir, poet Lorna Goodison weaves the history of her family - 'the fabulous Harvey girls' - with the history of Jamaica. It is a powerful love letter to the people and places that have shaped her.
In her lovingly written, richly imaginative and effortlessly joyful memoir, poet Lorna Goodison weaves the history of her family - 'the fabulous Harve...
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54,76 zł |
Mother Muse
ISBN: 9781800171060 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. 'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary author both at home and internationally,' Simon Armitage declared, when she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2019. 'Through poems rooted in her Caribbean heritage and upbringing she has created a body of enchanting, intelligent and socially aware poetry in the authentic registers of her own tongue.' Her poems have always found voices for the voiceless and shown another side of history. Her new book zones in on two great under-regarded figures to whom Jamaican music owes a...
'Lorna Goodison has come to be recognised as a hugely significant and influential contemporary author both at home and internationally,' Simon Armitag...
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55,97 zł |