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Caribbean Passion (Paperback)
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Caribbean Passion (Paperback)
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This feisty, sensuous, and thought-provoking collection of poetry
from Opal Palmer Adisa includes powerful poems about the solidarity
of women, the female elders of the poet's own family, and the
desire for male difference--including the benefits of having a
younger lover. In these poems there is no gap between the
historical, the political, and the personal, all are defined by the
presence or absence of the freedom to enjoy the fruits of life.
Whether writing about history, family, black lives, love, or sexual
passion, Opal Palmer Adisa has an acute eye for the contraries of
experience. A number of poems exhibit a witty dance between food
and sexuality--in one poem drinking coconut water becomes a sexual
act, while in another, the male body is eroticized metaphorically
in terms of a coconut palm. But within this focus on the physical,
there is also a keen sense of the oppression of the female body. In
her poem "Bumbu Clat," for example, she explores the deformation of
a word that originally signified sisterhood to become part of the
most misogynist curses in Jamaican society.
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