Crossroads and Unholy Water

By Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell

Marilene Phipps's poetry invites the reader to share sharp slices of Caribbean experience: Haiti is both stage and backdrop for people who move in various strata of the social scheme and through the three stages of life, in lieu of answers to the Sphinx's riddle. Through voices, nostalgic and tender, denouncing and shrill, we journey to a mythologizing Caribbean land populated with people whose dramatic intensity and fights for life are turned into sometimes funny, sometimes disquieting, and always richly evocative, palpable poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323060
• ISBN13: 9780809323067
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

GORGEOUS!

Perhaps it is Phipps' virtues as a painter that invigorate these poems with so much lush color and gorgeous visual detail. Her poems are also full of music--her Caribbean lullabies and fierce stories. CROSSROADS AND UNHOLY WATER is an amazing and mature debut!