Controlling the silver : poems / by Lorna Goodison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodison, Lorna.

Series:

Illinois poetry series.

Illinois poetry series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Poetry.

Conduct of life.

Caribbean Area--Poetry.

Caribbean Area.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex beauty of the natural world.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613251145

9781283251143

1283251140

9780252091384

0252091388

OCLC:

785782149