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Selected Poems by Grace Nichols
I Have Crossed an Ocean: Selected Poems, by Grace Nichols, a selection of verse written over nearly a quarter-century by the Guyanese poet, resident in Britain since 1977. Still best known for her first two books, I Is a Long-Memoried Woman (1983, winner of the Commonwealth Poetry Prize) and The Fat Black Woman’s Poems (1984), Nichols ranges in tone from the tragic to the comic, and her lyrical voice is slyly defiant — against cultural expectations, social conventions, historical hurts.
Poverty is the price
we pay for the sun girl
concludes one poem. Another, titled “The Fat Black Woman’s Motto on Her Bedroom Door”, runs to all of two capitalised lines:
IT’S BETTER TO DIE IN THE FLESH OF HOPE
THAN TO LIVE IN THE SLIMNESS OF DESPAIR.
(Bloodaxe Books, ISBN 978-1-85224-858-1, 191 pp)
[from The Caribbean Review of Books]
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