Bøger af Jacqueline de Weever

"Anguish floated on the breezes blowing through New York City as we tried desperately to keep ourselves alive. Some of us awoke to the sight of refrigerated trucks waiting outside hospitals to receive the dead. In upper Manhattan, some awoke to 'Flower Flash, ' installations donated by Lewis Miller Designs. Black trash baskets, old telephone booths, subway entrances appeared stuffed or garlanded with flowers. The florist's night work became altars of mourning and remembrance." Writers have responded in many ways to seeing the cities in which they dwell become places of crisis and mass mourning. In this somber and elegant collection, Jacqueline de Weever roams Brooklyn and Manhattan to glean darkness and light as a city confronts the COVID pandemic. Jacqueline de Weever, born in Georgetown, British Guiana (now Guyana), was educated there and in New York, earning a Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. She is Professor Emerita at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, where she taught English Medieval Literature for 29 years. Her poetry has been widely published in Blue Unicorn, The Cape Rock Review, Sensations Magazine, Tiger's Eye, Tribeca Poetry Review, Vanitas, among others. She is also a watercolor painter, and lives in Brooklyn. This is her fourth Poet's Press edition, following Trailing the Sun's Sweat (2015), Rice-Wine Ghosts (2017), and Seed Mistress (2020). This is the 307th publication of The Poet's Press.

This book is a retracing of landscape, heritage and culture, spanning continents and time. Interspersed with quotations from Columbus's journal, de Weever recounts and visits her native British Guiana as seen by its conquerors and ravishers, and by its survivors. Rich with the flora and fauna of island and Amazon, the book poses native against the encounter with the native. The eyes of the caiman look out from the waters, while the visiting European artist paints delicate watercolors of butterflies and lush tropical plants. Some of the poems inhabit the oppressed within our northern borders, such as Tituba, accused witch of Salem, or the lynched Native American Jacqueline Peters. In retracing her own heritage and origins, de Weever invites us to confront the beauty, and violence, of the hemisphere we share.

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