Shame Trees Don't Grow Here

Type

Book

Authors

Dr Velma Pollard

ISBN 10

0948833483

ISBN 13

9780948833489

Tags

Criticism & Theory, Poetry

Description

A shame tree is a Jamaican symbol for the development of moral consciousness, and the poems in this collection explore the points at which moral values emerge - and the consequences of their absence. The poems suggest toughly that such consciousness does not grow without unremitting effort and scrupulous sensitivity to feeling, but there is nothing didactic or moralistic about them. They are imaginative recreations of the dramas of coming to consciousness and the inevitable ambiguities of truth. As in all Velma Pollard's work, there is a deeply imbued sense of Caribbean history. - from Amzon

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