Research Catalog

Title

Everybody knows i am a haunting / Shivanee Ramlochan.

Author

Ramlochan, Shivanee

Publication

Leeds : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2017.

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Details

Description

70 pages; 21 cm

Uniform Title

Poems. Selections

Alternative Title

Poems.

Subject

• Trinidadian and Tobagonian poetry (English)
• Caribbean Area > Social conditions > Poetry

Genre/Form

• Poetry
• Trinidadian and Tobagonian poetry (English) – Women authors.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

I -- A Nursery of Gods for My Half-White Child 11 -- To Life in the New Year 12 -- The Abortionist's Daughter Declares Her Love 13 -- The Abortionist's Daughter Gives Cold Comfort 15 -- My Sister of the Coral Mouth 16 -- Duenne Lilith 18 -- Duenne Lara 20 -- Duenne Lorca 22 -- I See That Lilith Hath Been with Thee Again 23 -- The Virgin Speaks of What She Endured 25 -- Materna 27 -- Fire, Fire 29 -- The Abortionist's Granddaughter Gives Blood 30 -- Kiskadee Bride 31 -- Caracara 32 -- II The Red Thread Cycle -- i On the Third Anniversary of the Rape 35 -- ii Nail It to the Barn Door Where It Happened 37 -- iii You Wait for Five Years, and Then 39 -- iv The Policeman in Your Throat 41 -- v The Five Count 42 -- vi Public Holiday 44 -- vii The Open Mic of Every Deya, Burning 45 -- III -- All the Dead, All the Living 49 -- Catching Devi & Shakuntala 51 -- Shepherdess Boxcutter: One 52 -- Shepherdess Boxcutter: Two 53 -- No Curandera But Yo Sóla 54 -- Song of the Only Surviving Grandmother 55 -- Good Names for Three Children 57 -- Attrition 59 -- Clink, Clink 61 -- Camp Burn Down 62 -- The Lecture of Dead Gold 64 -- What Fights, Still 65 -- Crossdressing at Divali Nagar 67 -- Fatherhood 68 -- Vivek Considers the Nature of Secrets 69 -- Vivek Chooses His Husbands 70.

ISBN

• 1845233638
• 9781845233631

OCLC

964931466

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library