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Fauna by Jacqueline Bishop (2006, Perfect)

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"Fauna" is not just a collection of individually rewarding poems but a carefully structured whole. There are imagined scenes that are highly focused and there are the blurred images of the father who is always at the edge of the photograph.

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Product Identifiers

PublisherPeepal Tree Press, The Limited

ISBN-101845230329

ISBN-139781845230326

eBay Product ID (ePID)46754437

Product Key Features

Book TitleFauna

Number of Pages72 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicCaribbean & Latin American, General

Publication Year2006

GenrePoetry

AuthorJacqueline Bishop

FormatPerfect

Dimensions

Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight1.7 Oz

Item Length8.2 in

Item Width5.2 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition22

Number of Volumes1 vol.

Dewey Decimal811

SynopsisFauna is not just a collection of individually rewarding poems but a carefully structured whole. Using metaphors drawn from the fauna and flora of Jamaica and images drawn from painting as the over-arching devices, Bishop explores the tensions between plenitude and emptiness, presence and absence, the nourishing and the poisonous in her memories of the rural Jamaican childhood that has shaped her. There is the lushness of scene, but also the way that 'the smell of mango' will always be associated with childhood trauma, or the richness of avocado contrasted with the allamanda who admits, 'Everything alive develops a defence...Mine is poison; all parts of me are toxic'. There are imagined scenes that are highly focused and there are the blurred images of the father who is always at the edge of the photograph. And from the perspective of New York, Bishop sees herself as another kind of fauna, the Jamaican birds who can be found everywhere. 'In North America three or four species/ have been identified from the peculiar way they sing.' This is a moving and heart-felt collection, but Bishop never allows the siren voice of longing for return to become sentimental. Always there is the drive towards the artist's desire to remake the world and to work meticulously at what can be left in, what must be taken out. "Jacqueline Bishop's debut collection offers us passage into other worlds, both geographical and mythical. These poems define family, home, longing, and exile in profoundly moving and refreshingly new ways. They capture a myriad of voices, from those of the elders to those of the Fauna that populate the gorgeous second section of the book. The voices and images Bishop constructs in these poems are haunting in the best possible way: they are the melody we hear that reminds us of who we are, where we are from, and where we are going." Shara McCallum, author of Song of Thieves . Jacqueline Bishop was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. She now lives and works in New York City ... the 15th parish of Jamaica., A satisfying and original work, this collection of poems offers moving personal insights as it reconstructs a Jamaican childhood from memory. Using striking metaphors drawn from the fauna and flora of Jamaica as well as images of painting as overarching devices, this volume explores the dichotomies of plentitude and emptiness, presence and absence, and nourishment and poison. Never allowing her longing for the island to become sentimental, the poet meticulously recreates her world in these heartfelt poems.

LC Classification NumberPR9265.9