Lorna Goodison Quotes

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There is everywhere here.
There is Alps and Lapland and Berlin.
Armagh, Carrick Fergus, Malvern
Rhine and Calabar, Askenish
where freed slaves went to claim
what was left of the Africa within,
staging secret woodland ceremonies.

Lorna Goodison

But there is blood, red blood in the fields
of our lives, blood the bright banner flowing
over the order of cane and our history.

Lorna Goodison

Believe, believe
and believe this
the eye know how far
Heartease is.

Lorna Goodison

The welcome turns sour
she finds a woman's tongue
and clacks curses at the wind
for taking advantage
box her about this way
and that is the reason
wait is the reason
Tamarind Season.

Lorna Goodison

My mother raises rare blooms
and waters them with tea
her birth waters sang like rivers
my mother is now me.

Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison

Born: August 1, 1947 (age 78)

Bio: Lorna Goodison CD is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she teaches at the University of Michigan.

Known for:

From Harvey River (2007)
I am becoming my mother (1986)
To us, all flowers are roses (1995)
Turn thanks (1999)
Guinea Woman (2000)

Lorna Goodison on Wikipedia

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