Startling the Flying Fish - Softcover

Nichols, Grace

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9781844082919: Startling the Flying Fish

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844082911 ISBN 13: 9781844082919

Publisher: Virago Press Ltd, 2005

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The unifying voice of this symphonic sequence of poems is that of Cariwoma, an oracular Caribbean woman, who incarnates the spirit of the islands and mainland with their Old World/New World encounters and scattered linkages of migration. The poems, like the sea that informs her voice, move freely back and forth in time with a meditational serenity. Cariwoma's reflections on landscape, myth and history; her entanglements with figures as diverse as Cassandra, Columbus and spider-god Anansi; the lives of her overseas children are all collected here in this exciting new work from Grace Nichols.

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About the Author:

Grace Nichols was born in Guyana in 1950 and worked as a journalist and reporter. She came to Britain in 1977 and has published several children's books.

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