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- Gayle K. Fujita-Sato, ‘Third World as Place and Paradigm
in Cathy Song’s Picture Bride’, Melus, 15. 1 ( 1988 ), 49 – 72
(p. 50 ).
- Grace Nichols, The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (London:
Virago, 1984 ). All subsequent references to this edition are
given in the text.
- Grace Nichols, ‘The Battle with Language’, Caribbean Women
Writers: Essays from the First International Conference, ed.
Selwyn R. Cudjoe (Wellesley, MA: Calaloux, 1990 ), pp. 283 – 9
(p. 287 ).
- Grace Nichols, cited in Dennis Walder, Post Colonial Literatures
in English (London: Blackwell, 1998 ), p. 147.
- Grace Nichols, cited in Talk Yuh Talk Interviews with
Anglophone Caribbean Poets, ed. Kwame Dawes (Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Press, 2000 ), pp. 140 – 1.
- Mara Scanlon, ‘The Divine Body in Grace Nichols’s The Fat
Black Woman’s Poems’, World Literature Today, 72. 1 ( 1998 ),
59 – 66 (p. 62 ).
- Nichols, ‘The Battle with Language’, p. 289.
- Kamau Brathwaite, ‘Nation Language’, in History of the Voice:
The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean
Poetry (London: New Beacon, 1984 ), pp. 5 - 6.
- Nichols, ‘The Battle with Language’, p. 284.
- Susan M. Schultz (ed.), The Tribe of John Ashbery and
Contemporary Poetry (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama
Press, 1995 ), p. 1.
- John Ashbery, in Thomas Gardner Regions of Unlikeness:
Explaining Contemporary Poetry (Lincoln: University of
Nebraska Press, 1999 ), p. 74.
- John Ashbery, ‘In conversation with John Tranter New York
City, 20 April 1985 ’, Jacket, 2 ( 1985 ). Available online at
http://jacketmagazine.com/ 02 /jaiv 1985 .html.
- John Ashbery, in Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton
Anthology, ed. Paul Hoover (New York: Norton & Norton,
1994 ), p. 179. Originally published in Self-Portrait in a Convex
Mirror (New York: Viking, 1975 ).
- John Ashbery, ‘Novelty Love Trot’, in The American Poetry
Review, 33. 6 ( 2004 ), p. 6.
