After poems, psalms /
"What sustains you is a faith, which feeds your vision. While I do not share your faith, though its languages were fed to me from early, and the poetry I have kept, I do experience your visions, made of nature, inspired by biblical language, by the languages that have been inspired by other poe...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leeds :
Peepal Tree Press Ltd,
2025.
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| Summary: | "What sustains you is a faith, which feeds your vision. While I do not share your faith, though its languages were fed to me from early, and the poetry I have kept, I do experience your visions, made of nature, inspired by biblical language, by the languages that have been inspired by other poets, their music and words, which have been created to transform the imperial visions which have brought about such obscenities in our world that we have had to save and sustain ourselves, nourish ourselves anew. Of course, there were poets from within those imperial cultures, many, who too sought to remake their world whose abuse of power wreaked havoc. Your work contributes to that remaking. I sense that coming across the water from Guadeloupe and Martinique, Cesaire and St John Perse have infected your glosas, coming to meet up with Walcott - those immediate ones, but many others, as I say, who you call upon, who have helped you form your own language. Poems, canticles, psalms now glosas! I read your work this way. You call upon beauty, with thanksgiving."--Lawrence Scott, Trinidadian novelist and poet. |
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| Physical Description: | 69 pages : color illustration, portrait ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781845236007 1845236009 |