Overview
Ambition, rebellion, loss of innocence, memory, love, death and spiritual yearning are just some of the themes these poems explore. With an underlying seriousness leavened by wit and a self-deprecating humor, this collection engages in a dialogue that is both intensely Jamaican and universal. Featuring free verse, rhymed quatrains, haikus, and villanelles—in patois and standard English—this book also explores the dynamics, personal and social, of being a white poet in a black country.Reviews
"Rippling through these poems, nuancing their meaning, is an alertness to class and color distinctions, which grounds the poems in Jamaican social reality and no doubt in the poet's own place in that reality." —Edward Baugh, professor emeritus of Caribbean literature, University of the West IndiesAuthor Biography
Ralph Thompson is a Jamaican American poet whose works have been published in such journals as Carib, the Caribbean Writer, the Gleaner, and London Magazine. He is the author of The Denting of a Wave and View from Mount Diablo, and the recipient of the Jamaican National Literary Award.
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