Trailing the Sun's Sweat - Softcover

De Weever, Jacqueline

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0922558779 ISBN 13: 9780922558773

Publisher: Poet's Press, The, 2015

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Poet's Press, The
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0922558779
• ISBN 13: 9780922558773
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80