商品簡介
This enlightening, entertaining, profoundly political and poetic gathering of essays by thePoet Laureate of Jamaica covers a wealth of subjects, from the odd dissociation of a colonialeducation to the reality of life in the wider world, the singing of hymns in school and the waytheir words stay with us, to the many influences—music, art, storytelling, theatre, cinema, travel,religion, family life and politics—that nurture our imaginations and her own writing voice.Taking her title from Kingston's oldest market and downtown meeting place that was almostdestroyed by fire last year, Lorna Goodison introduces us to an extraordinary cast of charactersand range of influences—from finding a black hairdresser in Paris and crying at a movie inJamaica to having a life-changing epiphany in New York's Bottom Line Club or drinking tea withan old friend and new strangers in London's Marylebone High Street.
作者簡介
Lorna Goodison is the author of nine collections of poetry, threecollections of short stories and an award-winning memoir, From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her People. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017 and will serve until 2020. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Musgrave Gold Medal, the Henry Russel Award for Exceptional Creative Work, and the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. Her poetry has been included in major anthologies and collections of contemporary poetry over the past twenty-five years. Her work has been translated into many languages, and she has been a central figure at literary festivals throughout the world. Born in Jamaica, Lorna Goodison now divides her time between Canada and the US where she teaches at the University of Michigan.
