Selected Poems. by Lorna GoodisonReview by: Heather BurnsCallaloo, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Summer, 1993), p. 730Published by: The Johns Hopkins University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2932306 .

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CALLALOO

Informed by her experience of being a Quaker, an African-American, and a Lesbian mother, she continues the tradition Audre Lorde's writing so eloquently established: truth without compromise.

Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam. Ed. Carmen C. Esteves and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert. Rutgers University Press, 1991.

This collection of contemporary short stories by Caribbean women features women's perspectives on Caribbean history, particularly its periods of colonialism and slavery, and Caribbean culture derived from the rich mythology handed down through oral tradition. Stories by Jean Rhys, Jamaica Kincaid, Michelle Cliff, and others convey a variety of themes and literary styles. Many of the stories have been translated into English from Dutch, French, and Spanish.

The Jazz Poetry Anthology. Ed. Sascha Feinstein and Yusef Komunyakaa. Indiana University Press, 1991.

It is a well-known fact that jazz has influenced poetry from the music's origins in the 1920s to the present, from early blues to free jazz to experimental music. Included in this anthology are many already famous poems, largely experimental at the time they were written, such as Langston Hughes' "Dream Boogie" and "Jazzonia," Jack Kerouac's choruses from Mexico City Blues, and Frank O'Hara's elegy "The Day Lady Died." Though syncopated and varied rhythms are not exclusively unique to jazz or poetry, each art form has influenced the other. This anthology is alive with diverse impulses shared by jazz and poetry and offers several approaches to studying jazz and poetic aesthetics.

Piece of My Heart: A Lesbian of Color Anthology. Ed. Makeda Silvera. Sister Vision Press, 1991.

Dedicated to Audre Lorde, whose honesty and courage has influenced the writing of so many women of color and lesbians, this anthology is a good introduction to women writers we may not have heard of before, due to the sad truth of personal and professional marginalization. This well- organized book contains fiction, poetry, and nonfiction, and is divided into sections pertinent to lesbian concerns, such as, "Coming Out, Finding Home," "Sister to Sister," and "We will Not Be Invisible." Contributors include Chrystos, Beth Brant, Ritz Chow, Doris Harris, Barbara Smith, and many others.

Goodison, Lorna. Selected Poems. Michigan University Press, 1992.

Goodison incorporates her European and African heritage into her fine poems. As a contemporary poet writing within the English-speaking literary tradition, she focuses exclusively from the perspective of a black Jamaican woman. Her poems are full of vision and confidence. Political conviction and emotional experience make her language, whether formal or idiomatic, resonate with refreshing vitality. Fortunately for us, "Some of my worst wounds / have healed into poems."

Heather Burns University of Virginia

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