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The Storyteller's Return: Story Poems

The Storyteller's Return: Story Poems

Palmer Adisa, Opal

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN10: 9768286466
ISBN13: 9789768286468
Publisher: Ian Randle Publishers
Published: Feb 8 2022
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.41
Height: 0.28 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Opal Palmer Adisa has perfected a woman's grammar, and language rooted in the landscape of Jamaica, a landscape that she apprehends as compelling as a woman's body: complex, vibrant, dangerous and beautiful-and her poems emerge with a thick, sensual intensity. In these poems, Adisa brings her sharp eye and rich language to bear on her return to the Jamaica of beauty, sexual and physical violence, loss, and memory-a place where no one feels safe, and yet a place where the arias of maaanin-maanin are restorative. Adisa summons the spirit of women to guide her through memory and the stories in poems that are vulnerable, fierce and revealing. Opal Palmer Adisa has been writing successfully for years, and yet in The Storyteller's Return, one has the sense of a first and complete voice, a way of seeing that is urgent and powerful. Adisa's grandmother tells her, fi always have a good home/ dash you pee across you doorway. In the woman's grammar, transgression is liberation. This is an affirming and necessary meditation on the contradictory meaning of home by a gifted poet and storyteller. Home, writes the storyteller, will always remain unfinished.

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