| Fauna Contributor(s): Bishop, Jacqueline (Author) |
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ISBN: 1845230329 ISBN-13: 9781845230326 Publisher: Peepal Tree Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 811 |
| Physical Information: 0.26" H x 5.38" W x 8.16" (0.23 lbs) 72 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this collection of poems, Jacqueline Bishop uses metaphors drawn from the fauna and flora of Jamaica. She explores the tensions between plentitude and emptiness, presence and absence, the nourishing and the poisoness in her memories of the rural Jamaican childhood that has shaped her. |