A fierce green place : new and selected poems / Pamela Mordecai ; edited by Carol Bailey and Stephanie McKenzie ; with an afterword by Tanya Shirley. PRINT

By:

Mordecai, Pamela [author.]

Contributor(s):

Series: New Directions paperbook ; 1531.Publisher: New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2022Description: x, 220 pages ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780811231046
0811231046

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Poetry

DDC classification:

811 Ja Mor 23

Contents:

Early Poems -- from Journey Poem (1989) -- from de Man: a performance poem (1995) -- from Certifiable (2001) -- from The True Blue of Islands (2005) -- from Subversive Sonnets (2012) -- from de book of Mary: a performance poem (2015) -- from de book of Joseph: a performance poem (2022) -- New Poems.

Summary: "A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in the true blue of islands, to the stories of freed slaves told in subversive sonnets, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, A Fierce Green Place highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai's words, written out of a 'womb-space' of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: 'Women together / in one place will / bleed in solidarity / till every last body / turn super bitch at once'"-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	National Library of Jamaica	Jamaican	Rare Books Floor	811 Ja Mor (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		1000000197990

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together, across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989, to the moving elegy for her murdered brother in the true blue of islands, to the stories of freed slaves told in subversive sonnets, and on to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, A Fierce Green Place highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical virtuosity. Mordecai's words, written out of a 'womb-space' of sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy with such lines as: 'Women together / in one place will / bleed in solidarity / till every last body / turn super bitch at once'"-- Provided by publisher.

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