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""These wonderful poems open a world of sensation and memory. But it is a world revealed by language, never just controlled. The voice that guides the action here is openhearted and open-minded-a lyric presence that never deserts the subject or the reader. Syntax, craft and cadence add to the gather... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Little Soul
- Memory
- To Red
- Race
- Madwoman as Salome
- The Parable of the Wayward Child
- Vesta to Madwoman
- Madwoman's Geography
- The Story of Madwoman and Ixora
- Exile
- Lucea, Jamaica
- Journeying to Black River
- History and Myth
- The Story of Madwoman and Horse
- West Coast
- Parasol
- Madwoman in Middle Age
- Coda
- Fury
- Hour of Duppy and Dream
- Now I'm a Mother
- The Deer
- Manchineel
- Study of a Grasshopper
- Mother Love, a Blues
- The Parable of John Crow
- The Story of Madwoman and River Mumma
- Ten Things You Might Like to Know about Madwoman
- She
- The Parable of Shit and Flowers
- Why Madwoman Shouldn't Read the News
- Madwoman to Her Deliverer
- The Story of Madwoman and Cockroach
- Running
- Madwoman Exiled
- Madwoman as Rasta Medusa
- Oh Abuse
- Salome to Madwoman
- Madwoman to Claudette Colvin
- Lot's Wife to Madwoman
- Ode to the Apple
- Elegy
- Death
- Fable
- Elegy Blues
- You
- The Dream
- Sweetheart
- Sorrow
- Insomnia
- I
- Invention
- Hyde Park
- Grief
- Madwoman Apocrypha.