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20544047 |
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20190516161152.0 |
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180302s2018 enk 000 p eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781845234232 (pbk.) |
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| Transcribing agency |
UG |
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| Classification number |
PS3603.O45636 K66 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Klobah, Collins Loretta |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Ricantations / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Loretta Collins Klobah. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Leeds : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Peepal Tree P., |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2018. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
138 p. |
| 500 ## - GENERAL NOTE |
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| General note |
Collection of previously and newly published poems. |
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| General note |
"A Poetry Book Society recommendation"--Cover. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Ricantations will reinforce the perception of Loretta Collins Klobah as superb poetic story-teller with a compassionate and radical womanist vision, alert to the multi-layered reality of Puerto Rican life, where shiny modernity gives way to spirit presences. There are absorbingly reflective poems on Velasquez' paintings of an hyperphagic child, painted both naked and clothed, a stray horse that hangs around the poet's property, homunculi in glass bottles in a teaching hospital, the keeper of a butterfly farm, a high-wire circus family, and the irony of Nathan Leopold (with Loeb, the perpetrator of a famously brutal crime in the USA) becoming the expert on Puerto Rican bird life. Poems begin from the most fantastic premises a Che Guevera club in heaven with prizes for the coolest Che impersonator then line by rich baroque line open up her island s secret heart, revealing a society under multiple pressures even before Hurricane Maria, about which the title poem offers a brilliantly hallucinatory picture. Love must always be mixed with despair in a society where the reckless machismo of New Year gunfire kills a young woman, and older men prey on schoolgirls. New World English and Spanish rub shoulders in these poems, but the reader soon picks up the precise, word-loving, observant rhythms of the poet s own voice, a voice which has space for humour, as in a witty sequence of Jamaican poems about the attraction to men of women of ample size.There are more personal and intimate poems memories of her mother's psychiatric hospitalisation, of her own struggles with size and health, and the vulnerability of the body when a hurricane can strip life back to its hazardous basics. |
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New Era Business Enterprise |
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New Era Business Enterprise |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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Puerto Rico |
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Poetry. |
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TSD |
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KB/MA |
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TH |