I Been There, Sort of: New and Selected Poems [Paperback]

Mervyn Morris (Author)

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Publication Date: 27 July 2006 | ISBN-10: 1857548299 | ISBN-13: 978-1857548297 | Edition: 1

Mervyn Morris is one of the most distinctive West Indian poets, and his work is characterized by economy, wit and humane seriousness. He makes elegant use of Jamaica's linguistic range, with poems in international standard English, Jamaican Creole and mixtures in between. These variations inflect his treatment of love, lust, time, memory, death, religion, politics, commitment, identity, history, art and other concerns. His poems frequently suggest the tension inherent in moments of choice. "I Been There, Sort Of: New and Selected Poems" continues the poet's exploration of self and society, 'reality' and the imagination. It brings together poems from three of Mervyn Morris's previous collections, "Shadowboxing", "The Pond" and, "Examination Centre", alongside new work

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Paperback: 80 pages
Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd; 1 edition (27 July 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1857548299
ISBN-13: 978-1857548297
Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 0.8 x 21.6 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,386,517 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Mervyn Morris was born in Jamaica in 1937 and studied at the University College of the West Indies and St Edmund Hall, Oxford. In 1992 he was a UK Arts Council Visiting Writer-in-Residence at the South Bank Centre. His previous collections include The Pond, Shadowboxing and In Holy Week; he also edited The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories, Jamaican Women (Caribbean Writers) and published Is English We Speaking: And Other Essays. He lives in Kingston, Jamaica, where he is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at the University of the West Indies.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Mature work that looks over a lifetime 12 April 2008

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Morris takes advantage in this collection to bring together both recent and early poems, reminding us that he has been a poet of great ability, force, and academic stylishness for over four decades. Morris's great strength, it seems to me, having been reading his work for most of my life, is that he can combine a feeling for linguistic clarity that is academic -- indeed Oxonian -- with a depth of emotional insight into himself, his community, and his times that continues to startle.

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