Autore	Goodison Lorna
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (121 p.)
Disciplina	811/.54
Collana	Illinois poetry series
Soggetto topico	Conduct of life
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-283-25114-0 9786613251145 0-252-09138-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910462549003321

Autore	Goodison Lorna
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Urbana, : University of Illinois Press, c2005
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (121 p.)
Disciplina	811/.54
Collana	Illinois poetry series
Soggetto topico	Conduct of life
ISBN	9786613251145 9781283251143 1283251140 9780252091384 0252091388
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Island Aubade -- Over the Guinea Grass Piece -- Dear Cousin -- Excavating -- Ode to the Watchman -- Our Ancestral Dwellings -- Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive from Kingston to Lucea, 1952 -- The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on th Island of Allspice -- 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 Labor-in-Vain Savannah -- Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited -- Aunt Alberta -- Aunt Rose -- The Burden Bearer -- Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations Flanking St. Christopher on the Dashboard -- Hosay -- Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle -- These Three Butterflies and One Bird We Interpret As Signs -- The Geovangelist -- Don C and the Goldman Posse -- Back To Where We Come From -- O Priates 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 the Little Eskimo? -- 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 We Buy an Egyptian Blue Cecil Baugh Mug -- Change If You Must Just Change Slow -- All the Way to Kingston We Recall Urban Legends -- Whatever Became of MaMud? -- The Yard Man: An Election Poem -- Controlling the Silver -- 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 -- Rites -- Carnevale -- Aunt Ann -- The Liberator Speaks -- 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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910960136003321