Fauna

A satisfying and original work, this collection of poems offers moving personal insights as it reconstructs a Jamaican childhood from memory. Using striking metaphors drawn from the fauna and flora of Jamaica as well as images of painting as overarching devices, this volume explores the dichotomies of plentitude and emptiness, presence and absence, and nourishment and poison. Never allowing her longing for the island to become sentimental, the poet meticulously recreates her world in these heartfelt poems.

Jacqueline Bishop is the founding editor of Calabash: A Journal of Caribbean Arts & Letters and is presently editing a film on a group of Jamaican untutored artists called The Intuitives. She has been published in The Caribbean Writer, Crab Orchard Review, Macomere, Renaissance Noire and Wasafiri. She lives and works in New York City.

Lot's wife	p. 10
An end, or maybe a beginning	p. 13
Before electricity	p. 14
The picture	p. 15
My great grandmother speaks to me	p. 16
Girl	p. 17
Prelude	p. 19
My father : a snapshot	p. 20
My father's mother	p. 21
Recurring dream	p. 22
Litter	p. 23
The smell of mangoes	p. 25
Snakes	p. 26
Flame trees	p. 29
Allamanda	p. 30
Love bush	p. 31
Ixora	p. 32
Periwinkle	p. 33
Anthurium	p. 34
Oleander	p. 35
Canna lily	p. 37
Petrea	p. 38
Full bloom	p. 39
Calabash	p. 40
The raft of the Medusa	p. 43
The scene of mutiny	p. 44
Au pair	p. 45
The apple tree	p. 46
Carnage	p. 48
Don't you know this woman?	p. 50
Yositoshi's women	p. 52
Joan of Arc	p. 53
Eve & Lilith	p. 54
Lilith speaks	p. 56
Island juice blend	p. 58
Island women	p. 59
Calling me back home	p. 63
The mountain in the distance	p. 66
Xaymaca	p. 67
My great grandmother	p. 69
Pa	p. 70
Jamaican birds	p. 72
Fauna	p. 73
Myth	p. 74
Leaving the noise of the world behind	p. 76
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