A Fierce Green Place: New and Selected Poems brings together,
across the span of thirty-plus years, the rebellious, innovative
work of the Jamaican-born Canadian writer Pamela Mordecai. From her
acclaimed first collection Journey Poem published in 1989, to the
moving elegy for her murdered brother in the true blue of islands,
to the stories of freed slaves told in subversive sonnets, and on
to her dazzling reimaginings of biblical stories, A Fierce Green
Place highlights the astounding range and depths of a poet who
mixes Jamaican Creole with standard English, profanity and
reverence with dub and blues, the oral and vernacular with metrical
virtuosity. Mordecai's words, written out of a "womb-space" of
sound and power, shine through neo-colonial violence and patriarchy
with such lines as: "Women together / in one place will / bleed in
solidarity / till every last body / turn super bitch at once."
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