| Crossroads and Unholy Water Contributor(s): Phipps-Kettlewell, Marilene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0809323060 ISBN-13: 9780809323067 Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2000 Annotation: Marilene Phipps's poetry invites the reader to share sharp slices of Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx's riddle. Through voices, nostalgic and tender, denouncing and shrill, we journey to a mythologizing Caribbean land populated with people whose dramatic intensity and fights for life are turned into sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting, and always richly evocative, palpable poetry. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Caribbean & Latin American |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 99038613 |
| Lexile Measure: 870 |
| Series: Crab Orchard Award Series in Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.09" W x 9.01" (0.31 lbs) 88 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Marilene Phipps's poetry invites the reader to share sharp slices of Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx's riddle. Through voices, nostalgic and tender, denouncing and shrill, we journey to a mythologizing Caribbean land populated with people whose dramatic intensity and fights for life are turned into sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting, and always richly evocative, palpable poetry. |