| Caribbean Passion Contributor(s): Palmer Adisa, Opal (Author) |
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ISBN: 1900715929 ISBN-13: 9781900715928 Publisher: Peepal Tree Press OUR PRICE: $17.05 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2004 Annotation: This feisty and sensuous collection of poetry includes powerful poems about the solidarity of women, the female elders of the poet's own family, and the desire for male difference. In these poems there is no gap between the historical, the political, and the personal, all are defined by the presence or absence of the freedom to enjoy the fruits of life. Whether writing about history, family, black lives, love, or sexual passion, Opal Palmer Adisa has an acute eye for the contraries of experience. A number of poems exhibit a witty dance between food and sexuality, but within this focus on the physical, there is also a keen sense of the oppression of the female body. In her poem "Bumbu Clat," for example, she explores the deformation of a word that originally signified sisterhood to become part of the most misogynist curses in Jamaican society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Physical Information: 0.34" H x 5.36" W x 8.14" (0.29 lbs) 96 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This feisty, sensuous, and thought-provoking collection of poetry from Opal Palmer Adisa includes powerful poems about the solidarity of women, the female elders of the poet's own family, and the desire for male differenceincluding the benefits of having a younger lover. In these poems there is no gap between the historical, the political, and the personal, all are defined by the presence or absence of the freedom to enjoy the fruits of life. Whether writing about history, family, black lives, love, or sexual passion, Opal Palmer Adisa has an acute eye for the contraries of experience. A number of poems exhibit a witty dance between food and sexualityin one poem drinking coconut water becomes a sexual act, while in another, the male body is eroticized metaphorically in terms of a coconut palm. But within this focus on the physical, there is also a keen sense of the oppression of the female body. In her poem Bumbu Clat, for example, she explores the deformation of a word that originally signified sisterhood to become part of the most misogynist curses in Jamaican society. " |