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A Story I Am In - Selected Poems (Paperback, New)
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A Story I Am In - Selected Poems (Paperback, New)
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"A Story I Am In" is not just James Berry's life in poetry but a
book of all the lives he has witnessed or been part of - a story of
life itself. He came to Britain in 1948, in the first postwar wave
of Jamaican emigration, later becoming one of the first black
writers in Britain to achieve wider recognition. Poetry mattered to
Berry from an early age, exposed to two main languages: the
standard English of Bible and prayerbook heard every Sunday at
church, with all its rhythms and sounding patterns; and the tunes
of everyday Jamaican language, with its sayings and proverbs, its
special dialect words with their African connections, its
expression of a roots culture. These experiences gave him that
strong and particular Caribbean awareness of language which has
nourished his poetry over many years. This major retrospective of
his work covers five collections published over four decades, plus
a selection from four books of poetry for children. Much of his
poetry celebrates the divided world of a lifelong outsider. Growing
up in Jamaica, Berry felt as much disturbed by his African
background as by the European slave-trade and its aftermath. His
poetry shows how 'root agonies' made him view Africa as a
thoughtless and neglectful mother, how his years in Britain - most
of his adult life - left him worried by past, present and future.
Now in his mid-80s, he has sought in his later work to give voice
to all the people who came on the first ships from the Caribbean,
whose journeys held strange echoes of earlier sea voyages from
Africa to the slave plantations.
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