Lorna Goodison

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Lorna Goodison

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#1236

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#2586

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According to Wikipedia, Lorna Gaye Goodison CD is a Jamaican poet, essayist and memoirist, a leading West Indian writer, whose career spans four decades. She is now Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan, previously serving as the Lemuel A. Johnson Professor of English and African and Afroamerican Studies. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017 , serving in the role until 2020.

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Lorna Goodison's Published Works

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From Harvey River: A Memoir of My Mother and Her Island (2007) (23)
To Us, All Flowers Are Roses (1995) (19)
A new catalogue of the Mesara-type tombs (2005) (9)
Controlling the silver (2004) (5)
Della Makes Life (1989) (3)
Tamarind season : poems (1980) (2)
Baby mother and the king of swords (1990) (2)
Nanny (2019) (2)
Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems (2000) (2)
Goldengrove: New and Selected Poems (2006) (1)
Goodison on the Road to Heartease (2016) (1)
By Love Possessed (2021) (1)
The Banana Man and the Fiddler of Dooney (2018) (0)
On Leaving Goldengrove (2007) (0)
Poems (2008) (0)
Not a Usual Man (2022) (0)
Fall Away Iron Filings (2016) (0)
To Make Various Sorts of Black (2020) (0)
Two Poems (2015) (0)
Gifts of Sound and Vision: An Interview with Poet Lorna Goodison (2022) (0)
Guinea Woman (2019) (0)
"Derek" [on Derek Walcott] (2017) (0)
Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems@@@Travelling Mercies (2002) (0)
Life in Rural Jamaica (2021) (0)
Lullaby for Jean Rhys (2016) (0)
Selected Poems (2008) (0)
Poetry: Calling One Sweet Psalmist (2010) (0)
Preface: The Misrecognition of Charles W. Mills and the Dialogue of Intellectual Traditions (2022) (0)
Poems (2004) (0)
Recommendation for Amber (1991) (0)
Wordy, Worldly Women Poets: Louise Bennett, Lorna Goodison and Olive Senior: Denise deCaires Narain (2011) (0)
The Journey of the Three Dreads (2020) (0)
Sugar (2020) (0)
Reporting Back to Queen Isabella, Donette Francis, and Sandra Pouchet Paquet (2010) (0)
Word I learned Today; Advice for Amy Jolly from My Seat in the Balcony; The Writing Life (2014) (0)
Guinea Woman, and: Nanny (2019) (0)
Introduction: Sometimes Only Bob Will Do (2010) (0)
The Mother as Archetype of Self : A Poetics of Matrilineage in the Poetry of (2009) (0)
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art? (2020) (0)
Saturday Night at the Movies, and: The Fisherman Cannot Sing of the Cedars of Lebanon (2022) (0)
Poems: At the Keswick Museum; Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969; Hard Food (2004) (0)
Threnody (2022) (0)

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University of Michigan