Everyone knows I am a haunting / Shivanee Ramlochan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramlochan, Shivanee, author.

Series:

Peepal Tree Caribbean poetry

Poetry

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

70 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2017.

Contents:

I

A Nursery of Gods for My Half-White Child 11

To Life in the New Year 12

The Abortionist's Daughter Declares Her Love 13

The Abortionist's Daughter Gives Cold Comfort 15

My Sister of the Coral Mouth 16

Duenne Lilith 18

Duenne Lara 20

Duenne Lorca 22

I See That Lilith Hath Been with Thee Again 23

The Virgin Speaks of What She Endured 25

Materna 27

Fire, Fire 29

The Abortionist's Granddaughter Gives Blood 30

Kiskadee Bride 31

Caracara 32

II The Red Thread Cycle

i On the Third Anniversary of the Rape 35

ii Nail It to the Barn Door Where It Happened 37

iii You Wait for Five Years, and Then 39

iv The Policeman in Your Throat 41

v The Five Count 42

vi Public Holiday 44

vii The Open Mic of Every Deya, Burning 45

III

All the Dead, All the Living 49

Catching Devi & Shakuntala 51

Shepherdess Boxcutter: One 52

Shepherdess Boxcutter: Two 53

No Curandera But Yo Sóla 54

Song of the Only Surviving Grandmother 55

Good Names for Three Children 57

Attrition 59

Clink, Clink 61

Camp Burn Down 62

The Lecture of Dead Gold 64

What Fights, Still 65

Crossdressing at Divali Nagar 67

Fatherhood 68

Vivek Considers the Nature of Secrets 69

Vivek Chooses His Husbands 70.

ISBN:

1845233638

9781845233631

OCLC:

964931466

Publisher Number:

99973538334