To us, all flowers are roses : poems / by Lorna Goodison.

A collection of poems focusing on the culture and people of the Caribbean.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Main Author: Goodison, Lorna
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ℗♭1995.
Series:Illinois poetry series.
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Table of Contents:
  • Missing the mountains
  • October in the kingdom of the poor
  • Birth stone
  • Mother, the great stones got to move
  • Coir
  • Elephant
  • Bag-a-wire
  • Bun down cross roads
  • Papacita
  • In city gardens grow no roses as we know them
  • Songs of the fruits and sweets of childhood
  • Ouotside the gates
  • Concert
  • Annie Pengelly
  • Nayga bikkle
  • Inna Calabash
  • Name change : Morant Bay Uprising
  • Ground doves
  • White birds
  • Fron the garden of the women once fallen
  • Thyme
  • Of bitterness herbs
  • In the time of late-blooming pumkins
  • The river wanted out
  • The prophet Jeremiah speaks
  • Speak of the advent of new light
  • Mysteries
  • From the book of local miracles, largely unrecorded
  • The lace seller
  • The woman speaks to the man
  • Who has empoyed her son
  • Calling one sweet Psalmist
  • Deep-sea diving
  • Some things you do not know about me
  • In the mountains of the moon, Uganda
  • Of used-moon stars
  • To the creator of all bodies of water
  • O Africans
  • Morning, morning angel mine
  • Bulls Bay, Lucea
  • To us, all flowers are roses
  • Trident.