The cartographer tries to map a way to Zion / Kei Miller
Manchester : Carcanet, 2014. First Edition. Near fine paperback copy; slightly dust-dulled and edge-bumped. Spine sun-toned. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #469597
ISBN: 9781847772671
Physical description; 73 p. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Groundation -- The shrug of Jah -- Establishing the metre -- Quashie's verse -- Unsettled -- What the mapmaker ought to know -- The cartographer tries to Map a way to Zion -- i. in which the cartographer explains himself -- ii. in which the rastaman disagrees -- iii. -- iv. -- v. in which the rastaman offers an invitation -- vi. -- vii. -- viii. -- A Prayer for the unflummoxed beaver -- ix. in which the cartographer travels lengths and breadths -- Place name -- Me-No-Sen-You-No-Come -- x. in which the cartographer asks for directions -- xi. -- A ghazal for the tethered goats -- Roads xii. in which the rastaman begins to feel uncomfortable -- xiii. -- xiv. -- Place name -- Swamp -- For the croaking lizards -- Place name -- Wait-A-Bit -- xv. -- xvi. in which every song is singing Zion -- xvii. -- Place name -- Shotover -- Place name -- Corn Puss Gap -- xviii. -- xix. -- xx. in which the cartographer tells off the rastaman -- Place name -- Half Way Tree -- Place name -- Edinburgh Castle -- Hymn to the birds -- xxi. -- Filop Plays the Role of Papa Ghede (2010) -- Distance -- When considering the long, long journey of 28,000 rubber ducks -- xxii. -- xxiii. -- xxiv. in which the cartographer attends Reggae Sumfest -- The blood cloths -- Place name -- Bloody Bay -- For Pat Saunders, West Indian literature critic, after her dream -- xxv. -- In praise of maps -- My mother's atlas of dolls -- Place name -- Flog man -- Place name -- Try see -- What River Mumma knows -- xxvi. in which the rastaman gives a sermon -- xxvii. in which the rastaman says a benediction. Subjects; 2000-2099. Jamaican poetry. Cartography ; Poetry. Caribbean poetry (English). Jamaican poetry 21st century. Literature. Jamaican poetry 21st century. Jamaicans England ; Fiction. Mapping ; Fiction. Prophecies ; Fiction. Cartography ; Poetry. Literature. Cartography.
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