Fauna
by Jacqueline Bishop
Publication Date: Apr 28, 2006
List Price: $17.95
Format: Paperback, 72 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781845230326
Imprint: Peepal Tree Press
Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
Parent Company: Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Paperback Description:
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.
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.
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