Turn Thanks

by Goodison, Lorna

ISBN13: 9780252067884

ISBN10: 0252067886

Format: Paperback

Pub. Date: 1999-05-01

Publisher(s): Univ of Illinois Pr

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"The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in Turn Thanks, her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William Wordsworth, Vincent Van Gogh, the Wild Woman. ""Whether you will receive this letter or not I cannot tell,"" she writes. ""Still, I intend to send it . . . "" "

After the Green Gown of My Mother Gone Down	p. 3
My Mother's Sea Chanty	p. 6
The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner	p. 7
Turn Thanks to Miss Mirry	p. 12
Turn Thanks to Grandmother Hannah	p. 14
Love Song for Great-Grandmother Leanna	p. 15
Aunt Rose's Honey Advice	p. 16
Hardanga the Lost Stitch	p. 18
Notes from My Mother's Village before the Village Got Light	p. 20
Domestic Incense	p. 22
Signals from the Simple Life	p. 23
This Is My Father's Country	p. 27
Song of My Great-Grandfather William	p. 32
My Uncle	p. 33
The Sleeping Zemis	p. 35
Africa on the Mind Today	p. 37
Nana Yah, Your Teacher	p. 38
About Almonds and Ambergris	p. 39
The Mango of Poetry	p. 43
To Mr. William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps for Westmoreland	p. 45
Country, Sligoville	p. 47
Moon Cakes and Anna Akhmatova	p. 48
Antoinette Cosway Explains	p. 49
Song of the Burnt Gypsy of the City of Erlangen	p. 51
The Gypsy in the Russian Tea Room	p. 53
Vincent and the Orient	p. 54
Letter to Vincent Van Gogh	p. 55
Max Ernst Painting	p. 57
The Jerboa of John Dunkley	p. 58
Hungry Belly Kill Daley	p. 60
To Become Green Again and Young	p. 61
God a Me	p. 65
Sometimes on a Day Such as This	p. 67
When I Know You as Mountain	p. 69
On Houses	p. 70
A Bed of Mint	p. 72
Outwaiting the Crazy Wolf Moon	p. 73
I Know I Never Lose You	p. 74
Angel of Dreamers	p. 75
I Have Spent These Snowbound Days Away from Myself	p. 79
Winter Dreams	p. 80
A Quartet of Daffodils	p. 84
Coo Coo	p. 86
Bringing the Wild Woman Indoors	p. 89
The Revival Song of the Wild Woman	p. 91
Aye Spring	p. 93
Close to You Now	p. 94
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