Contemporary Poetry

36 contemporary poetry section the poem indicates that the lost sister, as her mother, will leave ‘no footprint’ (p. 53 ), no ma ...

lyric subjects 37 riding the waves’ (p. 7 ). Nichols’s fat black woman is adaptive, aphoristic and irreverent. She assumes a cen ...

38 contemporary poetry We in the Caribbean have a kind of plurality: we have English, which is the imposed language on much of t ...

lyric subjects 39 of the preacher in ‘Be a Butterfl y’. His cadence of the saying ‘Don’t be a kyatta-pilla / Be a Butterfl y’ (p ...

40 contemporary poetry to distil a voice from a cacophony of different voices available to a poet. He states his aim is to ‘repr ...

lyric subjects 41 The opening of the poem is almost ekphrastic, in that it describes in detail Parmigianino’s painting, renderin ...

42 contemporary poetry A peculiar slant Of memory that intrudes on the dreaming model In the silence of the studio as he conside ...

lyric subjects 43 Been awake for it, except that the day Is ending and it will be hard for you To get to sleep tonight, at least ...

44 contemporary poetry my childhood.’^37 A native speaker of Gujarati, she usefully makes a comparison between her multilingual ...

lyric subjects 45 existential. In a comic interlude the poet comments on her daugh- ter’s love of black – her insistence that he ...

46 contemporary poetry references the classical narrative of Penelope’s wait for her husband Odysseus. Traditionally associated ...

lyric subjects 47 have sought to enter, to break the surface, one of the ways it has been crooked – the blindness that one may s ...

48 contemporary poetry confl icting possibilities of poetry – as an act of recovery and an act of unthreading – are, in effect, ...

lyric subjects 49 The ‘analytic lyric’ in Palmer’s words addresses ‘the problematics of purely private utterance’ by ‘taking ove ...

50 contemporary poetry to things’ (p. 25 ). This poem can be read as an intersection of dis- courses, a kind of ‘unthreading’ of ...

lyric subjects 51 in the text. Hesitant, disorienting and painful statements are made and then discarded, such as: ‘The music of ...

52 contemporary poetry for the lyric draw striking parallels for the consideration of the slip- periness of subjectivity and the ...

lyric subjects 53 interrogation dominate the poems. At points there is also a search for patterns of interconnection and respons ...

54 contemporary poetry NOTES T. S. Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’, in Selected Essays (London: Faber & Faber, ...

lyric subjects 55 Gayle K. Fujita-Sato, ‘Third World as Place and Paradigm in Cathy Song’s Picture Bride’, Melus, 15. 1 ( 1988 ...