Come on Into My Tropical Garden
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A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes.
Grace Nichols je autorkou s jedinečným hlasem, která čerpá inspiraci z kulturního dědictví Guyany. Její díla prozkoumávají témata identity, paměti a kulturního mísení, často s využitím bohaté ústní tradice a mytologie regionu. Nichols mistrně splétá osobní a kolektivní příběhy, čímž vytváří poezii a prózu, která je současně intimní i epická. Její psaní je cenným příspěvkem k literatuře, který odhaluje krásu a složitost karibské zkušenosti.






A collection of poems which evoke the Caribbean, its people, and its landscapes.
An award-winning collection of poetry vividly evoking the experience of living in the Caribbean - and of leaving for other lands.This prestigious anthology, which won the 2003 CLPE Poetry Award, conjures up the sights and sounds, tastes and tales of the Caribbean; the experience of living there - and of leaving for other lands. A companion to the acclaimed A Caribbean Dozen, this book contains more than fifty poems by over thirty poets, including John Agard, Grace Nichols, James Berry, Valerie Bloom and Benjamin Zephaniah.
I Is A Long Memoried Woman, a collection by Guyanese poetess Grace Nichols, was first published in 1983 and a winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Nichols’ work develops the story of an anonymous African-Caribbean woman as she recounts the cruelty of slavery and its crippling effects on body, mind, and spirit. The narrator’s story is told in a rich language, which compliments the form to result in a rhythmic musicality reminiscent of spiritual slave songs.The collection of poems is divided into five sections, each an extended snapshot of the narrator’s life, and provides a view on slavery that cannot be delivered through a textbook, such as African compliance for the slave trade and being raped and impregnated by her slaveholder.
Grace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting. Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. I Have Crossed an Ocean is a comprehensive selection spanning some 25 years of her writing.
Bundel met werk van dertien dichters uit Caraïbische landen als Guyana, Jamaica en Trinidad, versierd met waterverfschilderingen in kleur. Voorlezen vanaf ca. 4 jaar, zelf lezen vanaf ca. 8 jaar.
Oog in oog met vrouwen is een bloemlezing uit het prachtige werk van schrijfsters uit Afrika, Azië, Latijns-Amerika en het Caribisch gebied. De fragmenten uit proza en poëzie, die zijn samengebracht onder noemers als Leven en Liefde, Werk en spel en Politiek en maatschappij , worden visueel vertaald en verlevendigd door meer dan veertig kleurenfoto's. Daarmee is dit boek een genoegen om te lezen en tegelijk een lust voor het oog.