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Description

1. 67 pages; 21 cm

Summary

1. In Zion Roses, her second collection, Monica Minott's poems grasp the reader's attention with a voice that is distinctively personal, both taut and musical--and tender and muscular when the occasion demands. Her language moves seamlessly and always appropriately between standard and Jamaican patwa, a reflection of a vision that encompasses a Black modernity still very much in touch with its aphoristic folk roots, where the ancestral meets Skype or a Jonkonnu band is stuck in a Kingston traffic jam. It is possible to see Minott's poems as being in a constant dialogue between four quadrants of engagement: with history, with landscape, with personal and family experience, and with the worlds of literature, music, and art. Minott's sense of history is deeply informed by a knowledge of the brutalities of commercial empire and of slavery and Black people's struggles against injustice and for selfhood. There is scarcely a poem that does not have some precisely described sense of the materiality of its circumstance and the interactions between the physical world and human feelings. You sense that what sustains a certain bravery of self-exposure and of risk is a sense of belonging to family. -- Amazon.

Uniform title

1. Poems. Selections

Alternative title

1. Poems.

Subject

1. 2000-2099
2. Jamaican poetry
3. English poetry > Black authors
4. English poetry > Women authors
5. English poetry > 21st century
6. English poetry

Genre/Form

1. Poetry.

Call number

1. ReCAP 22-2655

Author

1. Minott, Monica, author.

Title

1. Zion roses / Monica Minott.

Publisher

1. Leeds, UK : Peepal Tree, 2021.

Copyright date

1. ©2021

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Chronological term

1. 2000-2099

Local subject

1. Black author.

LCCN

1. 2021386695

ISBN

1. 1845235177 paperback
2. 9781845235178 paperback

Research call number

1. ReCAP 22-2655