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Caribbean Verse The Oxford Book of CARIBBEAN VERSE EDITED BY Stewart Brown and Mark McWatt OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS CONTENTS Introduction xvii SAINT-JOHN PERSE (Guadeloupe, 1887-1975) from Pictures for Crusoe The Bells 3 The Wall 3 The City 4 Friday • 5 The Parrot 5 CLAUDE MCKAY (Jamaica, 1889-1948) The Harlem Dancer 7 A Midnight Woman to the Bobby 7 LEON LALEAU (Haiti, 1892-I979) Betrayal 9 FRANK COLLYMORE (Barbados, 1893-1980) Hymn to the Sea 10 LUIS PALES MATOS (Puerto Rico, 1898-1959) Forbidden Fruit 12 H. A. VAUGHAN (Barbados, 1901-1985) Revelation 13 MARIE-MAGDELEINE CARBET (Martinique, b. 1902) Would I Deny? 14 NICOLAS GUILLEN (Cuba, I902-I987) from The Great Zoo Senora 16 The Usurers 16 Hunger 17 Cyclone 17 KKK 17 Bars 18 Ballad of the Two Grandfathers 19 Wake for Papa Montero 20 PHILIP SHERLOCK (Jamaica, 1902-2000) Trees His Testament 23 CONTENTS CONTENTS ALBERT HELMAN (Surinam, 1903-1996) ERIC ROACH (Tobago, 1915-1974) Lullaby 25 Love Overgrows a Rock 52 ROGER MAIS (Jamaica, 1905-1955) The World of Islands 53 All Men Come to the Hills 26 GEORGE CAMPBELL (Jamaica, 1916-2002) UNA MARSON (Jamaica, 1905-1965) Negro Aroused 54 Cameo 27 TREFOSSA (Surinam, 1916-1975) VERA BELL (Jamaica, b. 1906) A true poem.... 55 Ancestor on the Auction Block 28 GUY TiROLiEN (Guadeloupe, 1917-1988) Islands 56 JACQUES ROUMAIN (Haiti, 1907-1944) Ghetto 57 Guinea 30 \ MARIE-THERESE COLIMON (Haiti, I918-I988) PHYLLIS SHAND ALLFREY (Dominica, I908-I986) Encounter 59 Love for an Island 31 AIDA CARTAGENA PORTALATIN (Dominican Republic, 1918-1994) JEAN BRIERRE (Haiti, b. I909) A Woman Alone 60 Here I Am Again, Harlem 2 3 LOUISE BENNETT (Jamaica, b. 1919) HAROLD M. TELEMAQUE (Trinidad, I909-I982) : Dutty Tough 61 In Our Land 34 Jamaica Oman 62 VIVIAN VIRTUE (Jamaica, 1911-1998) • BARBARA FERLAND (Jamaica, b. 1919) Landscape Painter, Jamaica 35 >: When They Come from the Island 64 LEON-GONTRAN DAMAS (French Guiana, 1912-1978) JOHN FIGUEROA (Jamaica, 1920-1999) S.O.S. 36 Christmas Breeze 66 So Often 37 This Tree My Time Keeper 67 AIME CESAIRE (Martinique, b. 1913) WILSON HARRIS (Guyana, b. 1921) from Return to My Native Land 38 Behring Straits 71 Lost Body 39 A. L. HENDRIKS (Jamaica, 1922-1992) lagoonal calendar 40 The Migrant 68 The Automatic Crystal 42 BASIL MCFARLANE (Jamaica, b. 1922) Wifredo Lam . 43 Arawak Prologue 69 PEDRO MIR (Dominican Republic, 1913-2000) GLORIA ESCOFFERY (Jamaica, 1923-2002) Meditation on the Shores of Evening 45 Shelling Gungo Peas 73 JULIA DE BURGOS (Puerto Rico, 1914-1953) CECIL GRAY (Trinidad, b. 1923) To Julia de Burgos 47 On the Road 75 Poem with the Final Tune 48 Threading the Needle 76 A. j. SEYMOUR (Guyana, 1914-1989) BRUCE ST. JOHN (Barbados, 1923-1995) There Runs a Dream 50 Lighters 78 Sun is a Shapely Fire 50 LOUIS SIMPSON (Jamaica, b. 1923) Working Late 80 VI vii CONTENTS CONTENTS JAMES BERRY (Jamaica, b. 1924) ROBERTO FERNANDEZ RETAMAR (Cuba, b. 1930) Cut-Way Feelins 82 How Lucky, the Normal 122 Letter to My Father from London 82 Where's Fernandez? 123 RENE DEPESTRE (Haiti, b. I926) DEREK WALCOTT (St Lucia, b. I930) Ballad of a Little Lamp 84 The Schooner Flight 127 Black Ore 85 HEBERTO PADILLA (Cuba, 1932-2000) NEVILLE DAWES (Jamaica, 1926-1984) In Trying Times 141 Acceptance 88 REN13 PHILOCTETE (Haiti, 1932-1995) NYDIA ECURY (Aruba, b. 1926) Misery by Sunlight 142 The Visit 90 MICHAEL GILKES (Guyana, b. 1933) The Lighthouse 143 MARTIN CARTER (Guyana, 1927-1997) University of Hunger 91 EDWARD LUCIE-SMITH (Jamaica, b. 1933) Poems of Shape and Motion 93 Your Own Place 145 Proem 96 JOHN LYONS (Trinidad, b. 1933) Being Always 96 Crusoe's Thursday 146 E. MC.G. 'SHAKE' KEANE (St Vincent, 1927-1997) IAN MCDONALD (Trinidad/Guyana, b. 1933) Shaker Funeral 97 Forest Path, Nightfall 147 Soufriere (79) 99 The Sun Parrots are Late This Year 148 JOHN LA ROSE (Trinidad, b. 1927) STANLEY GREAVES (Guyana, b. 1934) Not From Here 102 Knees 150 EDOUARD GLISSANT (Martinique, b. 1928) SLADE HOPKINSON (Abdur-Rahman)(Guyana, 1934-1993) November 103 The Madwoman ofPapine 151 Wild Reading 103 ROBIN DOBRU (Surinam, 1935-1983) Slow Train 104 Jani (MP) 153 Walkway of Lonely Death 105 FRANK MARTINUS ARION (Curacao, b. I936) ANDREW SALKEY (Jamaica, 1928-1995) I fell in deep snow... 154 History and Away 107 EDWARD BAUGH (Jamaica, b. 1936) RALPH THOMPSON (Jamaica, b. 1928) The Carpenter's Complaint 155 Dinner Party 108 Sometimes in the Middle of the Story 156 DENNIS CRAIG (Guyana, 1929-2004) ANSON GONZALEZ (Trinidad, b. 1936) Trader 110 Tabiz 157 RAJANDAYE RAMKISSOON-CHEN (Trinidad, b. 1936) KAMAU BRATHWAITE (Barbados, b. 1930) Still My Teacher 159 The visibility trigger 112 South 114 HOWARD FERGUS (Montserrat, b. 1937) Milkweed 115 Behind God Back 160 from Sun Poem 11/12 117 CLAIRE HARRIS (Trinidad, b. 1937) The SilverSands Poem 121 Child this is the gospel on bakes 162 vin IX CONTENTS CONTENTS MARK MATHEWS (Guyana, b. 1937) CHRISTINE CRAIG (Jamaica, b. 1943) Mortal 165 St Anne Saturday 195 MERVYN MORRIS (Jamaica, b. 1937) HEATHER ROYES (Jamaica, b. 1943) Valley Prince 166 I No Longer Read Poetry 197 Peelin Orange 166 PEDRO PEREZ SARDUY (Cuba, b. I943) Muse 167 the POET 198 VELMA POLLARD (Jamaica, b. 1937) WAYNE BROWN (Trinidad, b. 1944) Beware the Naked Man Who Offers you a Shirt 168 The Witness 205 • LOURDES CASAL (Cuba, 1938-1981) FAUSTIN CHARLES (Trinidad, b. 1944) Poem 170 The Red Robber 206 E. A. MARKHAM (Montserrat, b. 1939) AMRYL JOHNSON (Trinidad, 1944-2001) A History Without Suffering 171 Far and High 207 172 Hurricane, Volcano, Mass Flight JEANETTE MILLER (Dominican Republic, b. 1944) DENNIS SCOTT (Jamaica, 1939-1991) Because Death is This Feeling 209 Uncle Time 174 NANCY MOREJ6N (Cuba, b. 1944) Epitaph 174 Black Woman 210 Apocalypse Dub 175 April 211 MARIA ARRILLAGA (Puerto Rko, b. 1940) Mother 212 To the Poets of My Generation 177 Grenadian Woman 213 MALIK (Grenada, b. 1940) JESUS cos CAUSSE (Cuba, b. 1945) Instant Ting 179 / Could Say 214 OLIVE SENIOR (Jamaica, b. 1941) t CYRIL DABYDEEN (Guyana, b. 1945) Birdshooting Season 182 Returning 215 Brief Lives 182 MCDONALD DIXON (St Lucia, b. 1945) Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird 183 Roseau—The Forgotten Village 217 ANTHONY MCNEIL (Jamaica, 1941-1996) ROOPLAL MONAR (Guyana, b. 1945) Ode to Brother Joe 186 The Cowherd 218 The Kingdom of Myth 187 MICHELLE CLIFF (Jamaica, b. 1946) ARNOLD HARRICHAND ITWARU (Guyana, b. 1942) The Land of Look Behind 219 body rites (chantfive) 189 LORNA GOODISON (Jamaica, b. 1947) BELKIS CUZA MALE (Cuba, b. 1942) For My Mother (May I Inherit Half Her Strength) 221 My Mother's Homeland 191 Ground Doves 223 PAM MORDECAI (Jamaica, b. 1942) The yard man: An election poem 224 Last Lines 192 Praise to the mother of Jamaican art 225 JOSEPH POLIUS (Martinique, b. 1942) JEAN GOULBOURNE (Jamaica, b. 1947) There are those who... 193 Sunday Crosses 226 XI CONTENTS CONTENTS MARK MCWATT (Guyana, b. 1947) •, MARILENE PHIPPS (Haiti, b. 1950) Nightfall: Kangaruma 228 My Life in Nerette 261 MARLENE NOURBESE PHILIP (Trinidad, b. 1947) LILLIAN ALLEN (Jamaica/Canada b. 1951) Fluttering Lives 230 Mrs 263 HAZEL SIMMONS-McDONALD (St Luda, b. 1947) HONOR FORD-SMITH (Jamaica, b. 1951) Parasite 231 Swimming Lesson 264 MIRTA YANEZ (Cuba, b. 1947) Lala the Dressmaker 265 The Duties of Womanhood 232 TATO LAVIERA (Puerto Rico, b. 1951) CYNTHIA JAMES (Trinidad, b. 1948) AmeRican 267 Woman Descendant 233 JUDITH ORTIZ COFER (Puerto Rico, b. 1952) JOHN ROBERT LEE (St Lucia, b. 1948) Under the Knife 269 Vocation 235 KENDEL HIPPOLYTE (St Lucia, b. I952) Lusca 236 Revo Lyric 270 EDGAR CAIRO (Surinam, 1948-2000) Bedtime Story, W.I. 271 Child of a New Tide 239 LINTON KWESI JOHNSON (Jamaica/UK, b. 1952) Sense outta Nansense JIT NARAIN (Surinam, b. 1948) 273 240 Dread Beat An Blood 274 Working all day, dreaming at night JANE KING (St Lucia, b. 1952) CHiQui VICIOSO (Dominican Republic, b. 1948) Fellow Traveller 276 Doha Mariana 241 MUTABARUKA (Jamaica, b. 1952) JOHN AGARD (Guyana, b. 1949) dis poem Pan Recipe 243 278 Limbo Dancer at Immigration 244 OKU ONUORA (Jamaica, b. 1952) BRIAN CHAN (Guyana, b. 1949) Pressure Drop 281 To a Daughter 246 REINA MARIA RODRIGUEZ (Cuba, b. I952) VICTOR QUESTEL (Trinidad, 1949-1982) When a Woman Doesn't Sleep 283 Judge Dreadword 247 DIONNE BRAND (Trinidad, b. 1953) Grandad 248 ; Return 284 JULIA ALVAREZ (Dominican Republic, b. 1950) MARGARET GILL (Barbados, b. 1953) Bilingual Sestina 252 ; Poem for a Migrant Worker 286 Last Trees 253 j MBALA (Jamaica, b. 1953) MERLE COLLINS (Grenada, b. 1950) The History of Dub Poetry 287 Nearly Ten Years Later 255 { OPAL PALMER ADISA (Jamaica, b. 1954) GRACE NICHOLS (Guyana, b. 1950) Madness Disguises Sanity 289 The Fat Black Woman Remembers 258 I MAHADAI DAS (Guyana, 1954-2003) Blackout 258 i They Came in Ships 290 GUSTAVO PEREZ-FIRMAT (Cuba, b. 1950) MAGGIE HARRIS (Guyana, b. 1954) Lime Cure 260 Doors 292 Xll Xlll CONTENTS MICHAEL SMITH (Jamaica, 1954-1983) Give Me Little Dub Music 293 Me Cyaan Believe It 295 PEGGY CARR (St Vincent, b. c.1955) Flight of the Firstborn 298 DAVID DABYDEEN (Guyana, b. 1955) Coolie Odyssey 299 ANTHONY KELLMAN (Barbados, b. 1955) After the Rain - 304 RACHEL MANLEY (Jamaica, b. 1955) Memory 306 ROI KWABENA (Trinidad, b. 1956) Letter from Sea Lots 307 JEAN 'BINTA' BREEZE (Jamaica, b. 1957) Riddym Ravings (The Mad Woman's Poem) 308 Ratoon 311 MARTIN ESPADA (Puerto Rico, b. 1957) Colibri 314 Imagine the Angels of Bread 315 SASENARINE PERSAUD (Guyana, b. 1958) Postcard to a Sister in South America 317 GEOFFRY PHILP (Jamaica, b.
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