Intersections
In this collection, the uncertain paths of childhood and adulthood are traced through a sequence of poems that treat Idlewild--a place deep in the heart of rural Jamaica--as a character, a constant that serves as a reliable touchstone for memory. Although the majority of the poems are centered on themes of security and pleasant memory, the edges are haunted with truths of rupture in family relations, abandonment, loneliness, resentment of unreliable men, and the challenges of maintaining faith through difficult times. Balancing nostalgia for the past with an acute awareness of the present--the poverty, violence, class divides, and racial comp…
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Weitere Autoren: Dawes, Kwame (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-84523-088-3
- EAN: 9781845230883
- Produktnummer: 5716842
- Verlag: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 106 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B20.6 cm x D0.2 cm 106 g
- Gewicht: 106
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Frances Marie Cokeis a poet who has contributed to Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts and Letters and the author of the poetry collection The Balm of Lilies.
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