Poetry. The poems in CROSSING WATER reflect the multiple face of the Caribbean and, by so doing, defy any easy labeling or categorization. They celebrate a region's language and customs, landscape and seascape, over which Mammon's dark clouds hang threateningly. While the colonial and neo-colonial disappointments may overshadow the beauty, these poems bear witness that they do not (indeed, cannot) destroy it. CROSSING WATER is, therefore, about capacities for survival, ways of defining who one is, ways of affirming the true ...
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Poetry. The poems in CROSSING WATER reflect the multiple face of the Caribbean and, by so doing, defy any easy labeling or categorization. They celebrate a region's language and customs, landscape and seascape, over which Mammon's dark clouds hang threateningly. While the colonial and neo-colonial disappointments may overshadow the beauty, these poems bear witness that they do not (indeed, cannot) destroy it. CROSSING WATER is, therefore, about capacities for survival, ways of defining who one is, ways of affirming the true self.
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Fine. No Jacket. Book. Quarto. A fine copy--tight and clean--First edition softcover with a beautiful image of a Caribbean island on the cover. Poetry by such authors as James Aboud, Edward Baugh Christine Craig, Mahadai Das, Lorna Goodison, Claire Harris, Rachel Manley, Marc Matthews and Derek Walcott.
