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Turn thanks : poems

Title
Turn thanks : poems / by Lorna Goodison.
Author
Goodison, Lorna.
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description
viii, 95 pages; 21 cm
Subjects
Contents
  • After the Green Gown of My Mother Gone Down -- My Mother's Sea Chanty -- The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner -- Turn Thanks to Miss Mirry -- Turn Thanks to Grandmother Hannah -- Love Song for Great-Grandmother Leanna -- Aunt Rose's Honey Advice -- Hardanga the Lost Stitch -- Notes from My Mother's Village before the Village Got Light -- Domestic Incense -- Signals from the Simple Life -- This Is My Father's Country -- Song of My Great-Grandfather William -- My Uncle -- The Sleeping Zemis -- Africa on the Mind Today -- Nana Yah, Your Teacher -- About Almonds and Ambergris -- The Mango of Poetry -- To Mr. William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland -- Country, Sligoville -- Moon Cakes and Anna Akhmatova -- Antoinette Cosway Explains -- Song of the Burnt Gypsy of the City of Erlangen -- The Gypsy in the Russian Tea Room -- Vincent and the Orient -- Letter to Vincent Van Gogh -- Max Ernst Painting -- The Jerboa of John Dunkley -- Hungry Belly Kill Daley --
  • To Become Green Again and Young -- God a Me -- Sometimes on a Day Such as This -- When I Know You as Mountain -- On Houses -- A Bed of Mint -- Outwaiting the Crazy Wolf Moon -- I Know I Never Lose You -- Angel of Dreamers -- I Have Spent These Snowbound Days Away from Myself -- Winter Dreams -- A Quartet of Daffodils -- Coo Coo -- Bringing the Wild Woman Indoors -- The Revival Song of the Wild Woman -- Aye Spring -- Close to You Now.
ISBN
0252067886 (acid-free paper)
LCCN
98025508
OCLC
ocm39556250
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries