Research Catalog

Title

Hoodoo voodoo / D.S. Marriott.

Author

Marriott, D. S.

Publication

Exeter : Shearsman Books, 2008.

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Holdings

Details

Description

xiv, 115 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

Hoodoo Voodoo is D.S. Marriott's second full-length collection and his first with Shearsman Books. In powerful works that interrogate what it is to be black in a majority white world, and indeed marginalised in any world, that call up unheard voices from the past that still need to speak to us today, Marriott gives us a poetry that we need in Britain today - perhaps more than the US: a poetry that merges the native modernist tradition with an infusion of 'negritude', and does not follow the easy narrative road. This is fine British poetry, pure and simple. That it happens also to be Black British poetry, for those who like easy classifications, is perhaps a bonus, but it is the work itself, not its source, that demands attention, and on its own terms.

Subject

• Poetry
• Poetry as Topic

Genre/Form

Poetry

Note

• Poems.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The seven cities of deluge -- On the whiteness of the whale -- The Ishmael poems -- The dream of Melby Dotson -- Only sleeping -- The monster -- Unconsoled -- Invocation : for Robert Charles -- Hoodoo voodoo -- Piggle poems -- Marabout -- Thirteen angels -- The endline -- Veil, No. 2 -- The levees -- Over the Black Mountains -- La couleur de la melancolie -- Moulds this fragile should never be taken -- The rest unfinished -- II. The kingdom of bones -- On the moors -- Closer -- One. two. eight. -- Soul murder -- Limping -- Jonas runs the Voodoo Down -- Those who eat human flesh -- On the scattered graves -- The narrows -- Memoir of the blind -- Else, in limbo -- Louverture, the opening -- The beastly beatitudes -- The day Ena died -- East End lyric -- The Three Stooges -- A ring -- Through a red prairie -- The wreck of the Mendi -- III. Ghede's song -- 1. Will in winter -- 2. When the vevers sang.

ISBN

• 1905700792
• 9781905700790

OCLC

225820740

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library