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16 produkter
By Love Possessed
Stories
E-bok, 2012
101 kr
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With this highly praised collection of short fiction, Lorna Goodison demonstrates why she may be one of literature''s best-kept secrets. In the Pushcart Prize-winning title story, humble Dottie thinks her luck has turned when she meets Frenchie, the best-looking, if not most reliable, man in the …
From Harvey River
A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island
E-bok, 2013
87 kr
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"Throughout her life my mother [Doris] lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up."In the tradition of Michael Ondaatje''s Running in the Family and Carlos Eire''s Waiting for …
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses
POEMS
Häftad, 1995
299 kr
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Writing in The Hudson Review,David Mason has characterized Lorna Goodison's work as a "revelationto me, much of it beautiful for its simple negotiation of the line betweenlife and art."One of the most distinguishedcontemporary poets of the Caribbean, Goodison draws on both African andEuropean …
Turn Thanks
POEMS
Häftad, 1999
299 kr
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The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William …
Controlling the Silver
Häftad, 2004
299 kr
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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.
Controlling the Silver
E-bok, 2010
522 kr
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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.
Selected Poems
Häftad, 1993
303 kr
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A selection of poems by Lorna Goodison, who in 2017 was named Poet Laureate of Jamaica.
By Love Possessed
Stories
E-bok, 2011
249 kr
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These beautifully crafted stories will introduce readers to the fiction of one of our literary bright lights – Lorna Goodison, the internationally renowned poet and award-winning author of the memoir From Harvey River . In sensuous language textured with the cadences of Creole speech, these stories …
Supplying Salt and Light
E-bok, 2013
243 kr
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This stunning new book of poems from internationally renowned poet Lorna Goodison opens in Spain and Portugal, conjuring up a new history of the Caribbean and a new way of setting up its heritage. The title sets the tone for poems about backgrounds and outlines and shadows and sources of light. …
From Harvey River
E-bok, 2009
240 kr
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“Throughout her life my mother, Doris, lived in two places at once: Kingston, Jamaica, where she raised a family of nine children, and Harvey River, in the parish of Hanover, where she was born and grew up.” When Doris Harvey’s English grandfather, William Harvey, discovers a clearing at the end of …
Collected Poems
Häftad, 2017
246 kr
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The Collected Poems (Second Impression) of Jamaica's Poet Laureate (2017-2020) and winner of The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2019. Lorna Goodison is a poet alive to places, from the loved and lived-in world of Jamaica where she began and started a family, to the United States and Canada where she …
New Voices
Selected by Lorna Goodison, Poet Laureate of Jamaica, 2017-2020
Häftad, 2020
390 kr
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New Voices is a collection of the prize-winning and shortlisted works of the Poet Laureate of Jamaica Prizes for Poetry from 2017 to 2020, selected by Lorna Goodison. The poets featured here are new and emerging voices in the Jamaican literary landscape. Hailing from different backgrounds, they …
From Harvey River
A Memoir Of My Mother And Her Island
Häftad, 2010
123 kr
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Lorna Goodison's family made their home in the Jamaican village to which her great-grandfather gave his name: Harvey River. Her mother Doris was a big-hearted lover of big stories and raised Lorna on tales of their family's - and Jamaica's - history. Gorgeously written with unashamed joy, From …
