Woman Song - Softcover

Jean Goulbourne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1900715031 ISBN 13: 9781900715034

Publisher: Peepal Tree Press, 2002

Synopsis

In Woman Song, Jean Goulbourne articulates the grief, hopes and unquenchable spirit of black women in the Caribbean. She writes with the directness of the reggae lyric, with both pungency and humour, and with an aphoristic economy which has the art of saying more with less.

Her poems encompass the lives of women old and young; middle-class and sufferers; women whose lives are enclosed, who want liberation from the 'station of motherhood, wifehood and frustration', and women who through their resistance, creativity and assertion of selfhood have made space for themselves. The celebration of such lives stands as a beacon of hope in the depiction of Jamaican society in which rape, poverty and abandonment are too frequently women's lot.

Jean Goulbourne grew up in rural Jamaica. She has worked as a teacher and a publications officer. She was the recipient of a James Michener Fellowship and an honorary fellowship at the Iowa Institute of Writing Programme.

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About the Author

Jean Goulbourne is the recipient of the James Michener Fellowship and an honorary fellowship at the Iowa Institute of Writing Program. She won the Jamaica National Literary Prize in 1993. She works as a teacher in rural Jamaica. She lives in Manchester, Jamaica.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1900715031
• ISBN 13: 9781900715034
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 56