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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phipps-Kettlewell, Marilène, 1950-

Series:

Crab Orchard Series in Poetry

Crab Orchard award series in poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Haiti--Poetry.

Haiti.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (88 p.)

Place of Publication:

Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-8093-9041-8

1-299-05067-0

0-585-34305-5

OCLC:

856870173