I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (669 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1852248580 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Born and educated in Guyana, Grace Nichols moved to Britain in 1977. Grace Nichols' poetry has a gritty lyricism that addresses the transatlantic connections central to the Caribbean-British experience. I Have Crossed an Ocean is a comprehensive selection spanning some 25 years of her writing.. Her work brings a mythic awareness and a sensuous musicality that is at the same time disquieting
Five Stars Marilyn Victor A true Caribbean masterpiece that examines the trauma of slavery on the black psyche. A journey to survival
She has published two books with Bloodaxe, her latest collection, Picasso, I Want My Face Back (2009), and I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems (2010), published on the occasion of her 60th birthday. Her first collection, I is a Long Memoried Woman (1983) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. . She lives in Sussex with the poet John Agard and their family. Her later poetry collections - published by Virago - include The Fat Black W
. Her poems celebrate sensuality and generosity and attack petty mean-spiritedness - Deeply Caribbean in sensibility, she writes sensitively of other traditions, especially Africa and India' - Peter Forbes, Contemporary Writers. 'From her first collection in 1983, "I Is a Long Memoried Woman", she has been a strong presence in the linguistic interweave between the Caribbean and the UK. Her poetry and prose move easily between the poised world of Western culture, Old World history and myth, and the gritty rhythms o