Ship Shape

By Dorothea Smartt

Focusing on a sense of duty--to record family history, to envision wholeness out of fragments, and to dissolve the differences that prejudice may interpose between private and public selves--this rich collection of poetry hinges upon a sequence of poems that excavate the missing history of Samboo, an African slave brought from the Caribbean to the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. Drawing connections between present-day

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845230582
• ISBN13: 9781845230586
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: Peepal Tree Press
• Length: 94 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.2" x 7.9"