I Been There, Sort Of New and Selected Poems

"The poems of Mervyn Morris, one of the most resourceful West Indian poets, are economical, witty and humane. Aware at each moment of the processes of writing, Morris makes use of the diverse linguistic resources of his native Jamaica, with poems in international standard English, Jamaican Creole and a range of hybrid idioms. The variations inflect his explorations of love and lust, time and memory, the relationship between private consciousness and commitment to the wider world of history, politics and art. His poems frequently suggest the tension inherent in moments of choice."--BOOK JACKET.

Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica and studied as a Rhodes Scholar at St. Edmund Hall–Oxford. He is the author of The Pond and Shadowboxing and the editor of The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories. Winner of a Centenary Medal and a Silver Musgrave Medal for poetry from the Institute of Jamaica, he is currently professor emeritus of creative writing at the University of the West Indies.