In this collection, the uncertain paths of childhood and adulthood
are traced through a sequence of poems that treat Idlewild--a place
deep in the heart of rural Jamaica--as a character, a constant that
serves as a reliable touchstone for memory. Although the majority
of the poems are centered on themes of security and pleasant
memory, the edges are haunted with truths of rupture in family
relations, abandonment, loneliness, resentment of unreliable men,
and the challenges of maintaining faith through difficult times.
Balancing nostalgia for the past with an acute awareness of the
present--the poverty, violence, class divides, and racial
complexities of modern day Jamaica--the central voice of the poem
matures along with the subject matter to gradually unveil a
well-formed poetic voice with an authoritative command of form and
language.
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