Crossroads and unholy water / Marilene Phipps.
Material type: TextSeries: Crab Orchard award series in poetryPublication details: Carbondale, Ill. : Southern Illinois University Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (x, 71 pages)Content type:- text
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Special Acknowledgments; Acknowledgments; I. Caribbean Beginnings; Man Nini; Caribbean Childhood; Outdoor Birthday Party-Father's Fortieth; Ga�etan; Rain; Dieudonne; Run for the River; Marasa Spirits of Ha�iti; Oksilya; Aunt Frances the Pianist; The Gold Watch; Emma; Queen of the Meadow; II. Life in Ner�et; Pigs and Wings; Sunday Knife; Ti Kikit; My Life in Ner�et; Pink; Family Tree; Elzir's Advice; Caribbean Corpses; Out for Some Bread on Flatbush Ave.; III. Vigils; Keeping Vigil; Cousin Th�er�ese; Waiting Room; Two Letters; Frozen Feel; Ha�itian Masks.
Old, Useless and UglyBlue Amani; The Bull at Nan Souvnans; Niska and the Snake; Other books in the series; Back Cover.
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 and tender, denouncing and shrill, we journey to a mythologizing Caribbean land populated with people whose dramatic intensity and fights for life are turned into sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting, and always richly evocative, palpable poetry.
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