Controlling the Silver
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Controlling the Silver

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eBook - ePub

Controlling the Silver

About this book

Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex beauty of the natural world.
 

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Contents
  7. Island Aubade
  8. Over the Guinea Grass Piece
  9. Dear Cousin
  10. Excavating
  11. Ode to the Watchman
  12. Our Ancestral Dwellings
  13. Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive from Kingston to Lucea, 1953
  14. The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on the Island of Allspice
  15. Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash
  16. So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?
  17. Jah the Baptist
  18. Poison Crab
  19. Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
  20. Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labor-in-Vain Savannah
  21. Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited
  22. Aunt Alberta
  23. Aunt Rose
  24. The Burden Bearer
  25. Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations Flanking St. Christopher on the Dashboard
  26. Hosay
  27. Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle
  28. These Three Butterflies and One Bird We Interpret as Signs
  29. The Geovangelist
  30. Don C And the Goldman Posse
  31. Back To Where We Come From
  32. O Pirates Yes They Rob I
  33. Tombstones
  34. Where the Flora of Our Village Came from
  35. By the Light of a Jamaican Moon
  36. Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer
  37. Hirfa of Egypt
  38. What of Tuktoo the Little Eskimo?
  39. Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean
  40. Louis Galdy of the World’s Once Wickedest City
  41. Remittance Man
  42. Black Like This?
  43. Pleasant Sunday Evenings
  44. Passing the Empty Playground
  45. What the Witnesses Saw When They Entered the Balm Yard
  46. This River Named by Our Great-Grandfather
  47. River Mumma
  48. The River Mumma Wants Out
  49. The Wisdom Of Cousin Fool-Fool Rose
  50. In the Field of Broken Pots
  51. But I May Be Reborn As Keke
  52. At Harmony Hall We Buy an Egyptian Blue Cecil Baugh Mug
  53. Change If You Must Just Change Slow
  54. All the Way to Kingston We Recall Urban Legends
  55. Whatever Became of MaMud?
  56. The Yard Man: An Election Poem
  57. Controlling the Silver
  58. Old Blue Nun
  59. Making Life
  60. Your Ice Art, Michigan
  61. Broadview
  62. Missing the Goat
  63. Spirit Catcher
  64. The Crying Philosopher and the Laughing Philosopher
  65. All Souls Day
  66. Hard Food
  67. Breadfruit Thoughts
  68. Rites
  69. Carnevale
  70. Aunt Ann
  71. The Liberator Speaks
  72. Palm Roses
  73. At the Keswick Museum
  74. Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
  75. Half Moon Bay
  76. Arriving at The Airport Once Called Idlewild
  77. Apollo Double Bill
  78. Guernica
  79. I Buy My Son A Reed
  80. I Saw Charles Mingus
  81. A Simple Apology