Oracabessa
by Lorna Goodison
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Publication Date: Oct 31, 2013
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Format: Paperback, 157 pages
Classification: Poetry
ISBN13: 9781847772428
Imprint: Carcanet Press
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Parent Company: Carcanet Press
Paperback Description:
Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada (’Winter has landed’) and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica; even to the Old Testament world of Ruth and Hagar. Throughout her journeys she hymns the artists who inspire her: El Greco, John Donne, Billie Holiday, ’Miles Marley Mozart’. At the end of travel, she is, as she says, ’Still on the road to Heartease’.
Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada (’Winter has landed’) and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica; even to the Old Testament world of Ruth and Hagar. Throughout her journeys she hymns the artists who inspire her: El Greco, John Donne, Billie Holiday, ’Miles Marley Mozart’. At the end of travel, she is, as she says, ’Still on the road to Heartease’.
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