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  Turn Thanks: Poems (Paperback) By (author) Lorna Goodison

  

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  Short Description for Turn ThanksA collection of poems that turns to acknowledge the poets own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William Wordsworth, Vincent Van Gogh, and the Wild Woman. This is the seventh collection of the poet.
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  • Publisher: University of Illinois Press
  • Published: 01 July 1999
  • Format: Paperback 112 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry By Individual Poets | Literary Studies: Poetry & Poets
  • ISBN 13: 9780252067884 ISBN 10: 0252067886

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• The lyric energy, compassion, humor, and tenderness that characterize Lorna Goodison's work are once again in evidence in "Turn Thanks", her seventh collection. Here the Jamaican poet turns to acknowledge her own ancestors and those of her craft: mother and father, aunts and uncles, Africa, William Wordsworth, Vincent Van Gogh, the Wild Woman. "Whether you will receive this letter or not I cannot tell," she writes, "Still, I intend to send it ...".