Research Catalog

Title

To us, all flowers are roses : poems / by Lorna Goodison.

Author

Goodison, Lorna.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1995], ©1995.

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Description

x, 73 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

Goodison's is an original voice in contemporary poetry, drawing on both African and European inheritances and reminding us that African heritages in the New World are not exclusively those of Americans, and that their Caribbean expression is a significantly different and relatively little known part of the African American experience. Her finely crafted poems often carry a sense of language's healing power in the face of the pain of the past.

Series Statement

Illinois poetry series

Uniform Title

Illinois poetry series.

Subject

• Caribbean Area > Poetry

Contents

• Missing the Mountains -- October in the Kingdom of the Poor -- Birth Stone -- Mother, the Great Stones Got to Move -- Coir -- Elephant -- Bag-a-Wire -- Bun Down Cross Roads -- Papacita -- In City Gardens Grow No Roses as We Know Them -- Songs of the Fruits and Sweets of Childhood -- Outside the Gates -- Concert -- Annie Pengelly -- Nayga Bikkle -- Inna Calabash -- Name Change: Morant Bay Uprising -- Ground Doves -- White Birds -- From the Garden of the Women Once Fallen -- Thyme -- Of Bitterness Herbs -- In the Time of Late-Blooming Pumpkins -- The River Wanted Out -- The Prophet Jeremiah Speaks -- Speak of the Advent of New Light -- Mysteries -- From the Book of Local Miracles, Largely Unrecorded -- The Lace Seller -- The Woman Speaks to the Man Who Has Employed Her Son -- Calling One Sweet Psalmist -- Deep-Sea Diving -- Some Things You Do Not Know about Me -- In the Mountains of the Moon, Uganda -- Of Used-Moon Stars -- To the Creator of all Bodies of Water --
• O Africans -- Morning, Morning Angel Mine -- Bulls Bay, Lucea -- To Us, All Flowers Are Roses -- Trident.

ISBN

0252064593 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

94031978

OCLC

• 30915475
• ocm30915475

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries