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Model: WI1063
ISBN: 9781894528016
Authors: MORDECAI, PAMELA
Publishers: SANDBERRY PRESS
Price: $800.00JMD
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This product was added to our catalog on Monday 12 September, 2011.
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ISBN: 1894528018
Author: Mordecai, pamela
Publisher: Sandberry press

The True Blue of Islands is a collection of poems that, for the most part, explore violence. The book begins with the brutal treatment of Great-Granny Mac, a slave, then takes ironic account of “Sun flowers” who endure abuse as well as inflict it on themselves, and ends with the murder of the poet's brother. Harnessing a broad range of Jamaican idioms, the poet tackles her subject with occasional wry humour, superb craft and dreadful honesty. These poems are heartbreaking but, unfailing, they sing.