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Over the roofs of the world / Olive Senior.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Senior, Olive.
- Series:
- Black women writers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jamaican poetry.
- Senior, Olive.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (109 p. ; 21 cm.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : Insomniac Press, c2005.
- Summary:
- Using nature as both model and metaphor, Toronto resident Olive Senior delves into birds, flying, and Caribbean life in her third book of poems. Following her much-loved collections, Gardening in the Tropics and Talking of Trees, this long-awaited book of poems is sure to delight readers around the world. Translated into several languages, represented in numerous anthologies, and broadcast in Canada, Britain, and the Caribbean, Senior's work enjoys international acclaim. Her work is taught at universities around the world, and her short story collection, Summer Lightning, has been a literature textbook in Caribbean schools. She has taught creative writing workshops at universities in Canada, the US, the UK, and the Caribbean, and is on the faculty of the Humber School for Writers.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- The Pull of Birds
- 1: A Little Bird Told Me ...
- The Secret of Capturing Parrot
- The Secret of Taming Parrot
- The Secret of Turning Green Parrot Yellow
- The Secret of Flying Close to the Sun Without Melting Wings
- The Secret of Crusoe's Parrot
- The Ultimate Secret
- Yard Fowl
- Rooster
- Hen
- Senseh
- Guinea Hen
- Owl
- Hummingbird
- Woodpecker
- Parakeet
- Magpie
- Peacock Tale, 1
- Peacock Tale, 2
- Albatross
- Emperor Penguin
- Ostrich
- The Dance of Cranes
- 2: Islanded
- Allspice
- Discovery
- The Birth of Islands
- Message in a Bottle
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird
- Misreading Wallace Stevens
- Rejected Text for a Tourist Brochure
- Missing
- Here and There
- Blue
- Leaving Home
- Lost Tropic
- Blue Magic Carpet
- Moon
- Wild Nester
- I: Wild Nester
- II: Ping Ya!
- III: Blue Quit
- IV: White Belly
- V: Blue Foot Traveller
- 3: Penny Reel
- With My Little Eye ...
- Riddle
- Embroidery
- Penny Reel
- White
- Lacemaker
- Pearl Diver
- Basketmaker
- Bird-Man / Bird-Woman
- Ode to Pablo Neruda
- Notes
- Acknowledgements.
- Notes:
- Poems.
- "A 4 a.m. book."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-91094-1
- 9786610910946
- 1-4593-0947-2
- 1-897414-86-2
- OCLC:
- 320325657
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