Lady in a Boat

by Merle Collins

In poems that express an oblique and resonant disquiet ('people dream of a lady/ in a boat, dressed in red/ petticoat, adrift and weeping') and a sequence that addresses memories of the death of the Grenadian revolution, too painful to confront until now, Merle Collins writes of a Caribbean adrift, amnesiac and in danger of nihilistic despair.

But she also achieves a life-enhancing and consoling perspective on those griefs. She does this...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1900715856
• ISBN13: 9781900715850
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 84 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.2" x 8.0"