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Selected poems / Una Marson ; edited by Alison Donnell.
Van Pelt Library PR6025.A695 A6 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marson, Una, 1905-1965.
- Series:
- Caribbean modern classics
- Caribbean modern classics, poetry
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry--Women authors.
- Poetry.
- Poetry, Modern--20th century.
- Poetry, Modern.
- Women poets, Jamaican.
- Women and literature--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Marson, Una, 1905-1965.
- Marson, Una.
- Local Subjects:
- Marson, Una, 1905-1965.
- Physical Description:
- 184 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leeds, UK : Peepal Tree, 2011.
- Summary:
- Presenting some of the most noteworthy pieces from a remarkably influential West Indian poet, this anthology sheds light on the lesser-known literary accomplishments of Una Marson. Revealing the work of a woman whose writing pioneered the articulation of gender and racial oppression, brought Jamaican vernacular voices alongside a Wordsworth-inspired passion for nature, and ventured to give subjectivity to marginalized subjects, this collection includes, in addition to her well-known poems, previously unpublished work from the 1930s through the 1950s. Striving to answer the question of how one writes as a modern black woman reaching out to the poor and powerless, this extensive selection embodies an exceptionally significant poetic achievement.--Publisher.
- Contents:
- From TROPIC REVERIES, 1930
- Longing
- Renunciation
- In Vain
- Incomplete
- I am Content
- Vows
- I Cannot Tell
- Love's Lament
- Love's Farewell
- I Know Not
- Absence
- Answer
- Jamaica
- The Singing Pilgrim
- To Hampton
- To Wed or Not to Wed
- If
- The Poet's Heart
- from HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS, 1931
- The Speedwell
- Nature's Heart
- The Meeting of the Clouds
- I Care Not
- Resignation
- The Peanut Boy
- Another Mould
- In Jamaica
- There Will Come a Time
- from THE KEYS
- Nigger
- Education
- from THE MOTH AND THE STAR, 1937
- Vagabond Creed
- Little Brown Girl
- He Called Us Brethren
- The Stranger
- Quashie Comes to London
- Home Thoughts
- Nostalgia
- Heartbreak Cottages
- Darlingford
- To the Hibiscus
- Winged Ants
- My Beloved
- Love Songs
- The Heart's Cunning
- Nightfall
- My Need
- The Impossible
- Reasoning
- Confession
- The Banjo Boy
- The Stone Breakers
- My Philosophy
- "Black is Fancy"
- Gettin' De Spirit
- Little Boys
- Winifred Holtby
- To the I.A.W.S.E.C.
- To Joe and Ben
- At the Prison Gates
- Cinema Eyes
- Going to Market
- Kinky Hair Blues
- Black Burden
- Canefield Blues
- To Connie
- Lonesome Blues
- Brown Baby Blues
- Foreign
- UNPUBLISHED c. 1944
- Paris and London
- from TOWARDS THE STARS
- "They Also Serve"
- Interlude
- The Test
- Politeness
- In the Darkness
- Frozen
- Dawn
- UNPUBLISHED LATER POEMS
- Emergence
- May
- The Seed
- The Joy of Mountains.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 38-39).
- ISBN:
- 9781845231682
- 1845231686
- OCLC:
- 617446082
- Publisher Number:
- 99980814163
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