New Caribbean Poetry An Anthology

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ISBN: 9781857549416 | 1857549414
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 6/1/2007

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Showcasing a diverse selection of new poetry from eight Caribbean poets, this anthology offers fresh perspectives from emerging and newly established poets who are forging a new and multifarious identity for Caribbean poetry. Including poets from Jamaica, the Bahamas, Barbados, St. Lucia, Trinidad and Tobago, and elsewhere, this is a lively overview of the Caribbean poetry scene's most original new voices.

Sanctuary	p. 3
Frog	p. 4
The Christ is born	p. 5
Chapel space	p. 6
Come visit	p. 7
On a cross	p. 8
Hear	p. 9
May you live	p. 10
The ink of my heart	p. 11
Blue eyes	p. 12
Estuary	p. 13
Dialogue	p. 14
Birds	p. 15
Lobsters	p. 16
Starfish	p. 17
Dark ants	p. 17
Fireflies	p. 17
A chicken	p. 18
On Good Friday	p. 19
The carpenter	p. 23
A song for my father	p. 24
Under these stones	p. 25
Interview with a centenarian	p. 26
Doctorbird	p. 27
The empty house	p. 28
Croaker	p. 29
The watertank revisited	p. 30
A question of love	p. 31
The fever with which she danced	p. 32
That Sunday morning	p. 33
Pocomania	p. 34
Kendal crash - 1957	p. 35
The Balmyard	p. 36
Freeing her hands to clap	p. 37
Goodman's Bay	p. 41
Shells for Sonia Sanchez	p. 43
Legba	p. 45
Twilight	p. 46
Moruga	p. 47
Anthuriums	p. 48
Yellow rooms	p. 49
Repatriation	p. 51
Groove	p. 52
On listening to Shabba while reading Cesaire	p. 54
Rudical : Derek Bennett, killed by police	p. 56
El Velorio, the wake (1893)	p. 59
Going up, going down	p. 61
Noche primera	p. 65
Noche segunda	p. 65
Noche tercera	p. 66
Immaculate noche cuarta	p. 66
Noche quinta	p. 67
Noche sexta	p. 68
Noche septima	p. 68
Noche octava	p. 69
Noche novena	p. 70
The twelve-foot neon woman on top of Maria's exotik pleasure palace speaks of papayas, hurricanes, and wakes	p. 71
By the waters of St. Lucia	p. 73
Two women chatting by the sea (1856)	p. 75
Last song	p. 81
A story	p. 81
Fate	p. 82
Electroshock	p. 83
Fugue	p. 84
The call	p. 84
Interlude	p. 85
Genesis	p. 85
Music not meant for music's cage	p. 86
Coda	p. 86
The Flamboyant	p. 87
What I'm telling you	p. 88
from Jack Mandoora me no choose none	p. 89
The tragedy of the mermaid	p. 91
What the oracle said	p. 92
Dove	p. 93
Election days	p. 94
Dear history	p. 95
Mother and child	p. 96
Guinep	p. 99
Out of body	p. 100
Sunday ritual	p. 102
The life left behind	p. 104
The music man	p. 105
She who sleeps with bones	p. 106
My name	p. 107
Cancer (part I)	p. 108
Catholic school	p. 109
Inheritance	p. 110
My Christian friend	p. 112
Music is made out of smoke	p. 113
Bought for half the original price	p. 115
Gods and spirits are summoned through the portal divine	p. 119
Mae Hanna, grandmother	p. 122
The dead their due	p. 125
'All blues' : Miles Davis Quintet	p. 127
Haitian worker, Monday morning	p. 129
Gloriana	p. 130
I must share these with you	p. 134
The felling of a tree	p. 137
Song	p. 138
Lady Lazarus in the sun	p. 140
Miss I-Tired	p. 144
For the seeds that wither	p. 145
The wild cat	p. 147
The mango	p. 148
A grandfather sings	p. 149
My mother took it	p. 150
Saint Francis and the Douen	p. 151
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