| Travelling Mercies | 
 enlarge | Buy New: $22.42
Buy New/Used from $11.36
Avg. Customer Rating:   (based on 1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 610956
Category: Book
Author: Lorna Goodison
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Studio: McClelland & Stewart
Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart
Label: McClelland & Stewart
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 104
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.5
ISBN: 0771033826
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780771033827
ASIN: 0771033826
Publication Date: April 17, 2001
Release Date: April 17, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
At the heart of acclaimed poet Lorna Goodison?s seventh book of poetry ? her first published in Canada ? is music, moving from a slow ska, a hard rocksteady, and a sweetie-come-brush-me bossanova, to line and sight gratitude psalms, lionheart outlaw anthems, and Miles Davis, blown by the winds to a concert in Berlin. Many of the poems are about those not heard or less counted, those who live in places like the favelas of Rio or the Kingston slum called Moonlight City. Goodison chronicles how ?from shameports we passed through whale-belly nights of no return?, or from prison through the fields of Tecumseh on a Greyhound bus to Detroit. And she journeys, as they must have, to hell, this time in a marvellous translation of the canto about Brunetto Latini from Dante?s Inferno, where she meets Mr. Brown, a Jamaican duppy conqueror from her own land of look behind. Set mainly in her native Jamaica but universal in its concerns, this book, rare and special, is the real thing.
|
| Customer Reviews:
I love poetry, but ............................. December 18, 2003
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love poetry; all types of poetry. I am neither offended by 'free verse' nor bored by rhyme. I do, however, need verse that is intelligible. I gave this 2 stars because there were just a few poems in the book that were interesting. Realizing that I do not share a cultural or racial history with Ms Goodison, there may be things I just don't get. This is not a book I could recommend.
|
|
|
