Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A fierce green place

Responsibility statement

Pamela Mordecai ; edited by Carol Bailey and Stephanie McKenzie ; with an afterword by Tanya Shirley

Series statement

New Directions paperbook

Sub title

new and selected 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

Table Of 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

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