Una Marson: Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Marson, Una

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1845231686 ISBN 13 : 9781845231682

Editeur : Peepal Tree Press Ltd, 2011

Synopsis

Una Marson is widely recognised as the earliest female poet of significance to emerge in West Indian literature , but whilst her role as an early feminist and a first woman publisher, broadcaster, pan-Africanist and anti-racist features on many web pages, her poetry has received less considered critical attention.

This may be because her work is very diverse, even seemingly contradictory. She is a Jamaican poet who pioneered the articulation of gender and racial oppression, brought Jamaican vernacular voices alongside a Wordsworthian passion for nature, and ventured to give subjectivity to the powerless and marginalised. Author of Afro-blues that draw on both African-American and Jamaican speech, and of folk monologues, she also wrote devotional sonnets and love lyrics within a distinctly un-modernist tradition. Marson s work as presented here is a complex subject, striving to answer the questions of how to write as a woman; as a black, modern, diasporic subject; for the poor and powerless.

As Donnell s extensive selection shows, and her introduction argues, Marson s is a significant poetic achievement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Una Marson was the assistant editor of a Jamaican political journal, "Jamaica Critic," and founder of the "Cosmopolitan" magazine. She is the author of the poetry collections "Heights"" and Depths," "Moth and the Star," and "Tropic Reveries" and the plays "At What Price," "London Calling," and "Pocomania." Her collaboration with the BBC led to the creation of the hugely influential "Caribbean Voices" program.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peepal Tree Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845231686
• ISBN 13: 9781845231682
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 164
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible