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Crossroads and unholy water [[electronic resource] /] / Marilene Phipps



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Autore: Phipps-Kettlewell Marilène <1950-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Crossroads and unholy water [[electronic resource] /] / Marilene Phipps Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Carbondale, : Crab Orchard Review, : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (88 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.54
Soggetto geografico: Haiti Poetry
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Special Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; I. Caribbean Beginnings; Man Nini; Caribbean Childhood; Outdoor Birthday Party-Father's Fortieth; Gaëtan; Rain; Dieudonne; Run for the River; Marasa Spirits of Haïti; Oksilya; Aunt Frances the Pianist; The Gold Watch; Emma; Queen of the Meadow; II. Life in Nerèt; Pigs and Wings; Sunday Knife; Ti Kikit; My Life in Nerèt; Pink; Family Tree; Elzir's Advice; Caribbean Corpses; Out for Some Bread on Flatbush Ave.; III. Vigils; Keeping Vigil; Cousin Thérèse; Waiting Room; Two Letters; Frozen Feel; Haïtian Masks
Old, Useless and UglyBlue Amani; The Bull at Nan Souvnans; Niska and the Snake; Other books in the series; Back Cover
Sommario/riassunto: Marilene Phipps's poetry invites the reader to share sharp slices of Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx's riddle. Through voices, nostalgic and tender, denouncing and shrill, we journey to a mythologizing Caribbean land populated with people whose dramatic intensity and fights for life are turned into sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting, and always richly evocative, palpable poetry.
Titolo autorizzato: Crossroads and unholy water  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8093-9041-8
1-299-05067-0
0-585-34305-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910778979403321
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Serie: Crab Orchard Series in Poetry