The Caribbean Writer

by Waters, Erika J.

• ISBN13: 9780962860645
• ISBN10: 0962860646
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of the Virgin Islands

Table of Contents

POETRY
Hopping Rooftops-Havana, Cuba, Circa 1968	16	(1)
Virgil Suarez
For My Uncle Who Wept Every Time He Sliced a Papaya in Half	17	(1)
Virgil Suarez
Self-Interview in the Hibiscus Garden with Coffee & Bagels	18	(1)
Virgil Suarez
Haircut, Havana, Circa 1969	19	(2)
Virgil Suarez
Tall Man Gan	21	(2)
Gabrielle DiLorenzo
Rushing to Taste the Water	23	(1)
Norman Minnick
Sufi Meditation: the Arcades of Saint Croix	24	(2)
Patricia Gill
Death of King Sugar	26	(2)
Winston Farrell
Caribbean Man	28	(2)
Winston Farrell
man-tree	30	(2)
Petamber Persaud
Papa Never Spoke About the War	32	(1)
Delores Gauntlett
The Blackheart Man	33	(1)
Delores Gauntlett
Death by Drowning	34	(2)
Patricia Harkins-Pierre
Ham's Bluff	36	(1)
Marvin E. Williams
Marasa Kongo: Vodou Twins	37	(1)
Anna Wexler
Plantation Tour	38	(4)
Anna Wexler
No Birthday Poem	42	(2)
Howard A. Fergus
Sideshow	44	(2)
Howard A. Fergus
Two Sides ah de Same Coin	46	(2)
Alice V. Henry
Freeze Frame	48	(1)
Mbala
Hurricane Country	49	(1)
David Joseph
The Secret Life of Laundering	50	(1)
Clover Lea
Fresh Fish	51	(1)
Thomas Reiter
A West Indian Statesman Goes Home	52	(2)
J.F.P. O'Neill
Casuarina	54	(2)
Cecil Gray
Crossword	56	(1)
Marina Taitt
Meditation to Shiva	57	(1)
Marina Taitt
Cane Man	58	(1)
Stacey Lezama
Leaving Barbados at Sunset	59	(1)
Christian A. Campbell
february sun in jail	60	(1)
Peter-Paul Zahl
One-Bubby Susan	61	(1)
Carol R. Clarke
Give Me Only Silence	62	(1)
Willi Chen
Salt	63	(2)
Jennifer Rahim
A Loss of Place	65	(1)
Middleton Wilson
Tableau with Drifting Foothills	66	(5)
Laurence Lieberman
SPECIAL SECTION
Muse: New Poems	71	(10)
Opal Palmer Adisa
SHORT FICTION
Sanctuary	81	(5)
Linda Rodriguez Guglielmoni
Navigating Voices	86	(9)
Maria Lemus
Sharon's Marriage	95	(9)
Dionne Jackson Miller
The Parillon Sisters	104	(9)
Eugenia O'Neal
Fagin and Friends	113	(6)
Cyril Dabydeen
Skipping Stones	119	(9)
Marvin E. Williams
SPECIAL SECTION
Poetry
Rodney Saint-Eloi
Edwidge Danticat
1701 fixed plan	128	(1)
7 eclairage	129	(1)
777 epistolary town	129	(3)
INTERVIEW
``Caribbean Theatre Pioneer'': An Interview with Errol Hill	132	(94)
Erika J. Waters
BOOK REVIEWS
Leaf-of-Life	145	(3)
Opal Palmer Adisa
June D. Bobb
Turn Thanks and Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems	148	(4)
Lorna Goodison
Kwame Dawes
Plumed Palms	152	(1)
Cecil Gray
Carrol B. Fleming
Pearly Everlasting	153	(2)
Thomas Reiter
David
Phillis Gershator
Curry Flavour	155	(2)
Lelawatte Manoo-Rahming
Geoffrey Philp
She	157	(3)
Claire Harris
Emily Allen Williams
My Garden (Book)	160	(2)
Jamaica Kincaid
Valerie Knowles Combie
The Poetics of Empire: A Study of James Grainger's The Sugar Cane (1764)	162	(2)
John Gilmore
Vincent O. Cooper
Between Father and Son: Family Letters	164	(3)
V. S. Naipaul
Arnold R. Highfield
Caribbeana - An Anthology of English Literature of the West Indies, 1657-1777	167	(2)
Thomas W. Krise
Louis James
Writing Black Britain, 1948-1998: An Interdisciplinary Anthology	169	(3)
James Proctor
Bruce King
Caribbean Literature in English	172	(3)
Louis James
Eugene V. Mohr
Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English	175	(4)
Mary Conde
Thorunn Lonsdale
Evelyn O'Callaghan
Not Yet African: A Journal of Discovery	179	(2)
Kevin Gordon
Roland B. Scott
Words Need Love Too	181	(2)
Kamau Brathwaite
June D. Bobb
The Trinidad Carnival: Mandate for a National Theatre	183	(3)
Errol Hill
Marvin E. Williams
Mamzelle Dragonfly	186	(3)
Raphael Confiant
Vladimir Barac
Susan Wanlass
General Sun, My Brother	189	(2)
Jacques Stephen Alexis
Bruce Berlind
Childhood and Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows	191	(4)
Patrick Chamoiseau
Brenda F. Berrian
Zombi, You My Love	195	(3)
William Orem
J. Michael Dash
Bruised Hibiscus	198	(2)
Elizabeth Nunez
Elena Lawton de Torruella
whispers from the cotton tree root: caribbean fabulist fiction	200	(3)
Nalo Hopkinson
Patricia Harkins-Pierre
Canada Geese and Apple Chatney: Stories	203	(3)
Sasenarine Persaud
Keith Jardim
At the Full and Change of the Moon	206	(3)
Dionne Brand
Roberta Q. Knowles
Sweet Like Saltwater	209	(2)
Raywat Deonandan
Harald Leusmann
Jahaji - An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Fiction	211	(3)
Frank Birbalsingh
Lelawattee Manoo-Rahming
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories	214	(3)
Stewart Brown
John Wickham
Sandra Pouchet Paquet
Libete: A Haiti Anthology	217	(3)
Charles Arthur
J. Michael Dash
Maud Pierre-Charles
Lara	220	(4)
Bernardine Evaristo
Bruce King
Stories from the Caribbean	224	(2)
Petronella Breinburg
Phillis Gershator
Index: Volumes 11 -- 15	226	(28)
Contributors	254	(18)
Prizes Awarded	272