Lorna Goodison
Biographic Data
| ID | 987748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lorna Goodison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lorna |
| FAMILY NAME | Goodison |
| SIGNATURE | GOODISON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Not a Usual Man
This essay takes the form of a brief tribute to the life and work of Kamau Brathwaite and his first wife, Doris Brathwaite. It is written from the point of view of a writer who knew Kamau personally and who considers herself to be the beneficiary of his immense wisdom and iconoclasm. The essay provides anecdotal accounts of an awards ceremony in London, when Kamau delivered a powerful exhortation to Caribbean writers, and of a New Year's Day part…
Saturday Night at the Movies | The Fisherman Cannot Sing of the Cedars | Of Lebanon
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art? Lorna Goodison (bio) She was the first nameless woman who createdimages of her children sold away from her.She suspended those wood babies from a roperound her neck, before she ate she fed them,touched bits of pounded yam and plantainsTo sealed lips; always urged them to sip water.She carved them of heartwood, teeth and nailsher first tools, later she wielded a blunt blade.Her spit cleaned face and limbs, th…
The Journey of the Three Dreads
The Journey of the Three Dreads Lorna Goodison (bio) Twenty one thousand miles we have come to see the king.Our hopes and dreams arrived in advance on the Black Star Line;Marcus Garvey our captain and guide through dark night. I and I Douglas Mack, Philmore Alvaranga and Mortimo Plannoare three who sighted your star in the east as we kept vigilawaiting the crowning of our Black king. And we have come, O King, bearing gifts: Ras Alvaranga:I presen…
To Make Various Sorts of Black
Sugar
Sugar Lorna Goodison (bio) in memory Sister Mary Ignatius Perfumed by sugarcane's money musk, her ancestorstook upon themselves airs of mount plenty.Aromatic sweet canes render bitter waters potable. Cane's cultivators—the Masses of stolen Africanscounted by Massa as less-than; and light-skin Marywas raised not to follow their ways or consider them playmates. "For you and them are not companion."But the girl was alive and quick to the people's mu…
The Banana Man and the Fiddler of Dooney
Nanny
Guinea Woman, and: Nanny
Guinea Woman
Word I learned Today; Advice for Amy Jolly from My Seat in the Balcony; The Writing Life
Word I learned Today; Advice for Amy Jolly from My Seat in the Balcony; The Writing Life." Wasafiri, 29(3), pp. 22–23
Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Research Article| July 01 2010 Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet Lorna Goodison Lorna Goodison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 179–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lorna Goodison; Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Small…
Poems
Weeds
Weeds Lorna Goodison (bio) And how can I, daughter of a woman who expressed a wish for common buttercups to flourish on her front lawn pull up a season of weeds from this yard without regret? This one is so lovely I say; it stands slender on a stalk and shoots yellow comets. At its feet there is a leaf doily or a cut-work skirt stepped out of, can we just leave it? Daughter of a man whose mother lost her land; you are in danger of forgetting that…
Poems: At the Keswick Museum; Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969; Hard Food
Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems
Two Poems
Selected Poems
Poems
Della Makes Life
He was embarrassed when he saw her coming toward him. He wished he could have just disappeared into the crowd and kept going as far away from Norman Manley Airport as was possible. Della returning, Della come back from New York after a whole year. Della dressed in some clothes which make her look like a checker cab. What in God's name was a big forty-odd-year-old woman who was fat when she leave Jamaica, and get worse fat since she go to America,…
By Love Possessed
Sometimes, she used to wake up and just look at him lying asleep beside her; she would prop herself up on one elbow and study his face. He slept like a child, knees drawn up to his stomach, both hands tucked between his thighs. His mouth was always slightly open when he slept, and his mouth water always left a damp patch on the pillowcase; no matter how many days after, it seems the patch would always be damp and every time she washed it, she wou…
Poems
Poems
Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems
Selected Poems
Della Makes Life
He was embarrassed when he saw her coming toward him. He wished he could have just disappeared into the crowd and kept going as far away from Norman Manley Airport as was possible. Della returning, Della come back from New York after a whole year. Della dressed in some clothes which make her look like a checker cab. What in God's name was a big forty-odd-year-old woman who was fat when she leave Jamaica, and get worse fat since she go to America,…
Poems
Poems
By Love Possessed
Sometimes, she used to wake up and just look at him lying asleep beside her; she would prop herself up on one elbow and study his face. He slept like a child, knees drawn up to his stomach, both hands tucked between his thighs. His mouth was always slightly open when he slept, and his mouth water always left a damp patch on the pillowcase; no matter how many days after, it seems the patch would always be damp and every time she washed it, she wou…
Della Makes Life
He was embarrassed when he saw her coming toward him. He wished he could have just disappeared into the crowd and kept going as far away from Norman Manley Airport as was possible. Della returning, Della come back from New York after a whole year. Della dressed in some clothes which make her look like a checker cab. What in God's name was a big forty-odd-year-old woman who was fat when she leave Jamaica, and get worse fat since she go to America,…
Poems
Selected Poems
Two Poems
Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems
Poems: At the Keswick Museum; Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969; Hard Food
Weeds
Weeds Lorna Goodison (bio) And how can I, daughter of a woman who expressed a wish for common buttercups to flourish on her front lawn pull up a season of weeds from this yard without regret? This one is so lovely I say; it stands slender on a stalk and shoots yellow comets. At its feet there is a leaf doily or a cut-work skirt stepped out of, can we just leave it? Daughter of a man whose mother lost her land; you are in danger of forgetting that…
Poems
Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Research Article| July 01 2010 Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet Lorna Goodison Lorna Goodison Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Small Axe (2010) 14 (2 (32)): 179–183. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2010-016 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Lorna Goodison; Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet. Small…
Word I learned Today; Advice for Amy Jolly from My Seat in the Balcony; The Writing Life
Word I learned Today; Advice for Amy Jolly from My Seat in the Balcony; The Writing Life." Wasafiri, 29(3), pp. 22–23
The Banana Man and the Fiddler of Dooney
Nanny
Guinea Woman, and: Nanny
Guinea Woman
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art? Lorna Goodison (bio) She was the first nameless woman who createdimages of her children sold away from her.She suspended those wood babies from a roperound her neck, before she ate she fed them,touched bits of pounded yam and plantainsTo sealed lips; always urged them to sip water.She carved them of heartwood, teeth and nailsher first tools, later she wielded a blunt blade.Her spit cleaned face and limbs, th…
The Journey of the Three Dreads
The Journey of the Three Dreads Lorna Goodison (bio) Twenty one thousand miles we have come to see the king.Our hopes and dreams arrived in advance on the Black Star Line;Marcus Garvey our captain and guide through dark night. I and I Douglas Mack, Philmore Alvaranga and Mortimo Plannoare three who sighted your star in the east as we kept vigilawaiting the crowning of our Black king. And we have come, O King, bearing gifts: Ras Alvaranga:I presen…
To Make Various Sorts of Black
Sugar
Sugar Lorna Goodison (bio) in memory Sister Mary Ignatius Perfumed by sugarcane's money musk, her ancestorstook upon themselves airs of mount plenty.Aromatic sweet canes render bitter waters potable. Cane's cultivators—the Masses of stolen Africanscounted by Massa as less-than; and light-skin Marywas raised not to follow their ways or consider them playmates. "For you and them are not companion."But the girl was alive and quick to the people's mu…
Saturday Night at the Movies | The Fisherman Cannot Sing of the Cedars | Of Lebanon
Not a Usual Man
This essay takes the form of a brief tribute to the life and work of Kamau Brathwaite and his first wife, Doris Brathwaite. It is written from the point of view of a writer who knew Kamau personally and who considers herself to be the beneficiary of his immense wisdom and iconoclasm. The essay provides anecdotal accounts of an awards ceremony in London, when Kamau delivered a powerful exhortation to Caribbean writers, and of a New Year's Day part…
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