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The Humming Birds by Lucinda Roy (1995, Paperback) 
The Humming Birds by Lucinda Roy (1995, Paperback)

 
The Humming Birds by Lucinda Roy (1995, Paperback)

Author: Lucinda Roy
Publisher: Eighth Mountain Pr
Publication Date: 1995-09-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 093337738X
ISBN-13: 9780933377387
Product ID: EPID925482
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Publication Date:1995-09-01

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Height:9.3 in
Width:6.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Lucinda Roy makes a living, breathing reality of women's history. Her poems compel us into the world she envisions, whether through the eyes of a slave or the eyes of a contemporary woman remembering Africa, remembering her dead mother, remembering nights of passionate love. And in the end the poems reveal how all these worlds are inevitably connected - how the slave, Lucy, still walks down the grand staircase of the plantation mansion, and how the poet's mother is still close by, waiting to be found. The work combines a seemingly effortless craft with an attention to detail that expands into unusual insights about the larger world. The poet excels at finding the uniquely personal image; even the tortoise, Albert, who was bombed during the London Blitz, becomes a potent symbol. "All I can offer now is resistance/to created myth, and sign, and metaphor", she says. Indeed, her poems, beautiful as they are, go far beyond metaphor to grapple with the very substance of life.

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"What isn't water in us must be bone; /what isn't weeping must be what remains/when weeping's done." Generations of women's stories have pretty much dried the well, but what is left where tears came from is an ore of wisdom, of truth. Roy (Wailing the Dead to Sleep, Bogle L'Ouverture, 1988) allows us a glimpse of the world through the eyes of a slave, or through the eyes of a contemporary woman remembering Africa, remembering her dead mother, remembering nights of passion and days of ordinary living in an extraordinary world. Whether framed by the bombed-out streets of London or the grandeur of the Virginia plantation, these poems are sparked by life and living, even in death: "You, the rose, stay fresh under the dirt/ like a cluster of white, scented stars...." Here is celebration in every aspect of life, even its ending: "When I die, whatever form I take will be close/ to song." This fine collection, which was selected by Lucille Clifton as the winner of the 1995 Eighth Mountain Poetry Prize, is highly recommended. Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
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