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Description

Renowned poet Lorna Goodison has written a new collection of elegies and praise songs which explore the close link between history and genealogy in the Caribbean experience. Her subjects range from the economic genius of market women to the complex beauty of the natural world.

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Before day morning, at cockcrow and firstlight, our island is washed by the sea which has been cleaning itself down with foamweed and sponge.

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  1. Lorna Goodison (Author)

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