Crossroads and unholy water /
Marilene Phipps's poetry invites the reader to share sharp slices of Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx's riddle. Through voices, nostalgic...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Carbondale, Ill. :
Southern Illinois University Press,
©2000.
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| ISBN: | 0585343055 9780585343051 9780809390410 0809390418 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Special Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; I. Caribbean Beginnings; Man Nini; Caribbean Childhood; Outdoor Birthday Party-Father's Fortieth; Gaëtan; Rain; Dieudonne; Run for the River; Marasa Spirits of Haïti; Oksilya; Aunt Frances the Pianist; The Gold Watch; Emma; Queen of the Meadow; II. Life in Nerèt; Pigs and Wings; Sunday Knife; Ti Kikit; My Life in Nerèt; Pink; Family Tree; Elzir's Advice; Caribbean Corpses; Out for Some Bread on Flatbush Ave.; III. Vigils; Keeping Vigil; Cousin Thérèse; Waiting Room; Two Letters; Frozen Feel; Haïtian Masks.
- Old, Useless and UglyBlue Amani; The Bull at Nan Souvnans; Niska and the Snake; Other books in the series; Back Cover.