Redemption Ground Essays and Adventures |
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| Author:
| Goodison, Lorna |
| ISBN: | 978-1-55065-621-3 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2023 |
| Publisher: | Vehicule Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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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 its title from one of Kingston' s oldest markets,
Redemption Ground introduces us to a vivid cast of characters and remembers moments of epiphany-- in a cinema in...
More DescriptionIn 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 its title from one of Kingston' s oldest markets, Redemption Ground 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. They confirm her as a major figure in world literature.