Redemption Ground
eBook - ePub

Redemption Ground

Essays and Adventures

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Redemption Ground

Essays and Adventures

About this book

In her first-ever collection of essays, poet and novelist Lorna Goodison interweaves the personal and political to explore themes that have occupied her working life: her love of poetry and the arts, colonialism and its legacy, racism and social justice, authenticity, and the enduring power of friendship.Taking her title from one of Kingston's oldest markets, a historic meeting place that was almost destroyed by fire, she introduces us to a vivid cast of characters and remembers moments of epiphany—in a cinema in Jamaica, at New York's Bottom Line club, and as she searched for a black hairdresser in Paris and drank tea in London's Marylebone High Street.Enlightening and entertaining, these essays explore not only daily challenges but also the compassion that enables us to rise above them. Goodison's poet's eye, profound vision and glorious combination of metaphysical and post-colonial sensibilities confirm her as a major figure in world literature.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Praise
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. 1: ‘The Song of the Banana Man’ and ‘The Fiddler of Dooney’
  7. 2: A Taste of Honey
  8. 3: Some poems that made me
  9. 4: Nadine Gordimer Memorial Lecture
  10. 5: I-Land
  11. 6: Daffodil-bashing
  12. 7: The groom
  13. 8: Bush your yard
  14. 9: Redemption is the key
  15. 10: ‘Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise’
  16. 11: My painted skirt like a scenic 78
  17. 12: The Caribbean imaginary, for Ifeona Fulani
  18. 13: A meditation on friendships past
  19. 14: Hurricanes
  20. 15: For Derek Walcott
  21. 16: Native(s) with the warmth
  22. 17: A vulgar upstart with ‘no right to aspire to poetry’
  23. 18: For Lee Jenkins – Cork
  24. 19: A party for Tarquin
  25. 20: Femme de la Martinique
  26. 21: The waterman
  27. 22: Parliament Street
  28. 23: Racism
  29. 24: For Keith Jarrett Rainmaker – Iowa City
  30. 25: People I’d like to meet
  31. Original Sources and Permissions
  32. Acknowledgements
  33. About the Author
  34. Copyright