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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
"A beautifully written and evocative book." --Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize
"Written by the hand of a poet, the prose in this collection is consistently beautiful." --Elizabeth Nunez, author of Prospero's Daughter and Boundaries
"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." --Uwem Akpan, author of Say You're One of Them, an Oprah Book Club...
"A beautifully written and evocative book." --Danielle Evans, author of Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self, winner of the PEN/Ro...
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 ...
