
Redemption Ground
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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 her title from one of Kingston's oldest markets, a historic meeting place that was almost destroyed by fire, she 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. Goodison's poet's eye, profound vision and glorious combination of metaphysical and post-colonial sensibilities confirm her as a major figure in world literature.
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- Intro
- Praise
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- 1: 'The Song of the Banana Man' and 'The Fiddler of Dooney'
- 2: A Taste of Honey
- 3: Some poems that made me
- 4: Nadine Gordimer Memorial Lecture
- 5: I-Land
- 6: Daffodil-bashing
- 7: The groom
- 8: Bush your yard
- 9: Redemption is the key
- 10: 'Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise'
- 11: My painted skirt like a scenic 78
- 12: The Caribbean imaginary, for Ifeona Fulani
- 13: A meditation on friendships past
- 14: Hurricanes
- 15: For Derek Walcott
- 16: Native(s) with the warmth
- 17: A vulgar upstart with 'no right to aspire to poetry'
- 18: For Lee Jenkins - Cork
- 19: A party for Tarquin
- 20: Femme de la Martinique
- 21: The waterman
- 22: Parliament Street
- 23: Racism
- 24: For Keith Jarrett Rainmaker - Iowa City
- 25: People I'd like to meet
- Original Sources and Permissions
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- Copyright
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