Maroon

By Danielle Legros Georges and Cleo Qian

Maroon is the debut collection of Haitian-American poet Danielle Legros 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. Her poetry is electric with an overpowering zest for life and vitality of language, as she examines the traumatic experiences that brought her parents to America and searches for a more complete understanding of self.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1880684799
• ISBN13: 9781880684795
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Curbstone Press
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent work, Danielle!!

Delightful, evocative, sad, challenging! Each piece Danielle wrote in this book carries its own weight!

Inspiring debut collection

In her debut collection of poems, Maroon, Danielle Legros Georges explores her identity as a woman, daughter, lover and Haitian émigré. Her poems are as much about sacrifice and namelessness as they are about love. The book is divided into four sections and in Section One she examines the uncertainty of Haitian life. In Section Two she describes life in America and Section Three is dedicated to familial loves with several poems about her father. The last section, perhaps the most exuberant, plunges us into the lush countryside of Haiti with its intense descriptions of the landscape and her love for her embattled country