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Title

Goldengrove : new and selected poems / Lorna Goodison.

Author

Goodison, Lorna

Publication

Manchester : Carcanet, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

124 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"This volume presents a varied selection of poems from Goodison's previous collections, 'Travelling Mercies' and 'Controlling the Silver', alongside new poems. It brings to life people, places and politics, attempting to reconcile the poet's two inherited cultures, African-Caribbean and European." --Publisher.

Subject

• English poetry

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Balm -- I come from a land -- On leaving goldengrove : a letter and seven notes ... -- Fall away iron filings -- Where I come from -- In dreams of shipwreck -- The selflessness of salmon -- Naming of flowers -- To the Buddha go the roses -- Gates of ivory, gates of horn -- The lion and the gypsy revisited -- Silence before speech -- Yet once more I will shake -- Rock of ages -- The cruel room -- What happened to Peter -- Giovanni Paulo -- Abraham and Isaac after -- A praise song to Mandiba and the camphor trees of Vergelegen -- Windrush Sankey -- Spending the gold of lovers -- Travelling mercies -- What we carried that carried us -- The living converter woman of Green Island -- Never expect -- Book -- Was it Legba she met outside the coronation market? -- Moonlight city -- Run greyhound -- Brunetto Latini -- To the heirs of low bequests to harvest and glean ... -- For love of Marpessa Dawn -- Miles in Berlin -- The garden of St. Michael in the seven-hilled city of Bamberg -- I am weary of all winters mother -- Invitations from Heathcliff -- Poor Mrs. Lot -- Natal song -- Over the island of salt -- Song of the scapegoat -- Shining one -- To absorb the green -- Medicine bundle of a Blackfoot woman -- Her body became a container for stars -- Studio I : brother Everald Brown -- Studio II : Seymour L. -- Studio III : Petrona Morrison -- Studio IV : Barrington Watson -- Cezanne after Emile Zola -- Praises in Papine market -- Crossover Griot -- Petition to the Magdalen -- Iron shirt -- My island like a swimming turtle -- Questions for Marcus Mosiah Garvey -- Lush -- Bam Chi Chi Lala -- Island Aubade -- Dear cousin -- Excavating -- Ode to the watchman -- Our ancestral dwellings -- The wandering Jew and the Arab merchant on the island of allspice -- Passing the grace vessels of Calabash -- So who was the mother of Jamaican art? -- Jah the Baptist -- Poison crab -- Fool-fool Rose is leaving labor-in-vain Savannah -- Rainstorm is weeping : an Arawak folk tale revisited -- Aunt Alberta -- Aunt Rose -- The burden bearer -- Hosay -- Creation story : why our island is shaped like a turtle -- These three butterflies and one bird we interpret as signs -- Don C and the goldman posse -- 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 -- Black like this? -- 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 -- Change if you must just change slow -- The yard man : an election poem -- Controlling the silver -- Making life -- Your ice art, Michigan -- Broadview -- Missing the goat -- The crying philosopher and the laughing philosopher -- Hard food -- Rites -- Aunt Ann -- The liberator speaks -- At the Keswick Museum -- Barn Chi Chi La La : London, 1969 -- Apollo double bill -- Guernica -- I buy my son a reed -- I saw Charles Mingus.

ISBN

• 9781857548488 (pbk.)
• 1857548485 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 68772661
• SCSB-12122742

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library