Maroon

by Georges, Danielle Legros

• ISBN13: 9781880684795
• ISBN10: 1880684799
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-01
• Publisher: Curbstone Pr

Summary

Maroon is the debut collection of Haitian-American poet Danielle Georges who writes of the pain of exile, the beauty of nature, and the delights of love in highly rhythmic, highly original language. The range of her voice is remarkable-from the comic to the tragic to the lyric, but always her poetry is electric with an overpowering zest for life and vitality of language. fromOur Water We could have been a waterfall, at the sacred site of Saute-D'eau, encircled by an impromptu ceremony of birds. Instead, in Boston's November. we take what we can: flights of laughter, and only a bar of soap between us. Marketing Plans: o Author readings in Boston, Hartford, Storrs, Amherst, New York.

Author Biography

Danielle Legros Georges was born in Haiti and raised in the United States. Her poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including The American Poetry Review, The Caribbean Writer, The Christian Science Monitor, and Compost Magazine. Her work has also been widely anthologized, and she has received numerous awards for her writing, including support from the MacDowell Colony and the Barbara Deming Fund. At present she lives in Boston

Table of Contents

To and From	3	(24)
Buttercup	5	(1)
A Dream: The Clock Is Melting	6	(1)
Songs For Women	7	(1)
Hen Hen Hen	8	(2)
musing	10	(1)
palimpsest dress	11	(1)
Night Watch	12	(2)
Attached	14	(1)
Maroon	15	(2)
Fishing	17	(3)
small i	20	(2)
How to Kiss	22	(2)
A Painting at the Met	24	(3)
Another Ode to Salt	27	(24)
Boston Back Yard	28	(1)
Mrs. Jean-Louis Listens to the Doctor, Boston City Hospital	29	(1)
Family Portrait	30	(1)
Airfield	31	(1)
Accents in Degrees	32	(1)
Stones for Libations	33	(2)
My Father is Dogon	35	(1)
Anacaona	36	(3)
Nova	39	(1)
The List Grows	40	(1)
Vellum	41	(1)
Praisesong for Port-au-Prince	42	(1)
Fin We Mo	43	(3)
St. Francesco	46	(1)
Ogoun	47	(1)
General Sun	48	(3)
Vexed	51	(10)
Compas	54	(1)
Fillette	55	(1)
Looking Up	56	(1)
Our Water	57	(1)
Writing Lesson on the Lawn	58	(3)
Everyone Loves a Good Villain	61	(10)
A Cut	62	(1)
At the Basketball Hall of Fame	63	(2)
Grasshopper	65	(2)
Hostage	67	(1)
The Yellow Forms of Paradise	68	(3)
Notes	71