Full Description
Maroon is the debut collection of Haitian-American poet Danielle Georges who writes of the pain of exile, the beauty of nature, and the delights of love in highly rhythmic, highly original language. The range of her voice is remarkable-from the comic to the tragic to the lyric, but always her poetry is electric with an overpowering zest for life and vitality of language.
Contents
I.
To and From
Buttercup
A Dream: The Clock is Melting
Songs for Women
Hen Hen Hen
musing
palimpsest dress
Night Watch
Attached
Maroon
Fishing
small i
How to Kiss
A Painting at the Met
II.
Another Ode to Salt
Boston Back Yard
Mrs. Jean-Louis Listens to the Doctor, Boston City Hospital
Family Portrait
Airfield
Accents in Degrees
Stones for Libations
My Father is Dogon
Anacaona
Nova
The List Grows
Vellum
Praisesong for Port-au-Prince
Fin Wè Mò
St. Francesco
Ogoun
General Sun
III.
Vexed
Compas
Fillette
Looking Up
Our Water
Writing Lesson on the Lawn
IV.
Everyone Loves a Good Villain
A Cut
At the Basketball Hall of Fame
Grasshopper
Hostage
The Yellow Forms of Paradise
Notes
