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A fierce green place : new and selected poems / Pamela Mordecai ; edited by Carol Bailey and Stephanie McKenzie ; with an afterword by Tanya Shirley.
Van Pelt Library PR9199.3.M6358 F54 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mordecai, Pamela, author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1531.
- New Directions paperbook ; NDP1531
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- x, 220 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022.
- Summary:
- "A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in the true blue of islands, to the stories of freed slaves told in subversive sonnets, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, A Fierce Green Place highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai's words, written out of a 'womb-space' of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: 'Women together / in one place will / bleed in solidarity / till every last body / turn super bitch at once'"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Early Poems
- Red, Red Wine
- A Birthday Wish
- Butterfly
- Eddy
- From Journey Poem (1989)
- Walker
- Family Story
- Island Woman
- Chinese Gardens
- -UWI
- Poem
- Protest Poem
- Last Lines
- From de Man: a performance poem (1995)
- Station I Jesus Is Condemned to Death
- Station II Jesus Takes Up His Cross
- Station IV Jesus Meets His Mother
- Station VI Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus
- Station IX Jesus Falls the Third Time
- Station XI Jesus Is Nailed to the Cross
- Station XIV Jesus Is Laid in the Tomb
- From Certifiable (2001)
- Tell Me
- Poems Grow
- Shooting the Horses
- Dust
- Convent Girl
- To No Music
- Jus a Likl Lovin
- Elizabeth
- My Sister Muse
- My Sister Gloria
- My Sister Red
- Blessed Assurance
- Certifiable
- From The True Blue of Islands (2005)
- The Story of Nellie
- Great Writers and Toads
- Yellow Girl Blues
- Everybody Get Flat-A Dub
- The True Blue of Islands
- From Subversive Sonnets (2012)
- Lace Makers
- Cockpit Country
- -A Tasting Tour
- Counting the Ways and Marrying True Minds
- Zoey Stands Up to Schrodinger's Cat
- Temitope
- Trois hommes: un reve
- Poor Execution
- One Time Jamboree
- -Darfur, Maybe?
- Remembering Nothing
- Bill Belfast and Lizzie Bell
- Thomas Thistlewood and Tom
- Great Granny Mac
- Litany on the Line
- Yarn Spinner
- From de book of Mary: a performance poem (2015)
- Opening chorus of male and female voices
- Archangel Gabriel speaks to Mary
- Miss Ann, beside herself
- Mary has a baby boy
- Anna's prophecy
- Jesus grows up
- Mary, as she waits for Joseph to be buried
- Mary and some women of Jerusalem stay with Jesus
- Mary Magdalene addresses Mary's friend, Mariam
- Mary sees Jesus in the upper room
- Closing chorus of male and female voices
- From de book of Joseph: a performance poem (2022)
- 8. ("Was a long time before me discover")
- 12. ("Me was glad in my life")
- 14. ("Black hair wid nuff twist tell me some son of Ham")
- 23. ("Debs belly grow a next time but de bwoy chile slip away")
- 25. ("Debs bad luck wid borning baby never change")
- 29. ("Me wait and me watch till defire decay")
- 30. ("Rake my heart when me tink how Debs die")
- 31. ("Debs and me share life near to seventeen year")
- 46. ("De Roman-dem say de gods use we for sport")
- 50. ("High priest wait till de widower-dem shut dem mouth")
- 59. ("Is Mary self tell me")
- 76. ("We reach Bethlehem at bout de ninth hour")
- 80. ("Mary put Jesus on her breast")
- 106. ("Dese last days Mary pining can't stop look for Jesus")
- 114. ("Talk de truth me well glad it come like it come")
- New Poems
- Africa Poem
- Hard Nut to Crack
- Blood Claat
- Sword on the Road
- Toy Boy
- Bawl Woman Bawl: A Lament
- Shakuntala
- Learned upon Bleeding
- Sonnet 129
- Not for Everybody
- Come, Child
- A Different Noise
- "A Pig a Pearl"
- -A Native Myth
- True-True Love
- A Light Full Day in May, or What's True, Pussycat?
- Transcribing the Letters of William Alexander
- Bustamante
- Searching for Home
- A Poem Is a Power
- Poem, Polemic
- Poem Ascending
- Stalking Ma
- Walk a Short Way wid Dis Sistren: A Conversation with the Editors.
- Notes:
- A New Directions paperbook original.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780811231046
- 0811231046
- OCLC:
- 1285121624
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