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Shell
by Olive Senior

    Publication Date: Jun 01, 2008
    List Price: $9.95
    Format: Paperback, 112 pages
    Classification: Poetry
    ISBN13: 9781897178485
    Imprint: Insomniac Press
    Publisher: Insomniac Press
    Parent Company: Insomniac Press

    Paperback Description:
    In Shell, Olive Senior continues her ongoing investigation of the natural world, the nature of poetry and the power of her Caribbean heritage. She is our guide through realms of miniature elegance, those of shells in their abundant manifestations. With her grace, generosity and world-renowned lyricism, Senior gives us hen’s eggs as hymns, molluscs as metaphors, shells of all kinds — sometimes fragile, sometimes unyielding — as home, as womb, as token and as totem. Ultimately, she places these shells, small and delicate, at the heart of the Jamaican cane fields, revealing a history rich with culture and haunted by slavery. These are Senior’s most powerful and affirming poems to date.



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