The Way Home - Softcover

Millicent A. A. Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845232348 ISBN 13: 9781845232344

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this collection, Millicent Graham focuses on memory and the idea of home, while questioning the very nature of home as both a physical and emotional space. There are comforts--the landscape, the vegetation, the food, the playground, the hand of parents, the romantic escapades--and there are the disquiets--the bullying, the violence, the fearfulness, the failure of memory, the losses. In these very intimate poems, Graham marks out a distinct poetic territory for herself with an immediately recognizable voice, an assured handling of language and image, and the sensation that she is adding to the corpus of Caribbean poetry in important ways. Graham, has, in this book, made good on her indebtedness to her fascination with the elliptical and image-heavy verse of Tony McNeill, and the lyrical, lushness of story and memory in the poetry of Lorna Goodison. It is possible to see an army of poetic influences in these two Jamaican poets, and Graham carries all these influences inside of her, while sounding only like herself. Her work is guided first by her desire to write her home, both the actual and physical world of Jamaica, and her other home, her equally rich imaginative and poetic home.

About this title

About the Author:

Millicent A. A. Graham lives in Kingston, Jamaica. She is a fellow of the University of Iowa's International Writing Program, 2009 and was awarded the Michael and Marylee Fairbanks International Fellowship to Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, 2010.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1845232348
• ISBN 13: 9781845232344
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56