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Laurence Lieberman |
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Leiberman widens the scope of his previous Caribbean collections by drawing attention to the small enchanting islands of the Grenadines, a chain running between Grenada and St. Vincent. (more …) "Lieberman's really is a singular achievement. His subjects, his style and syntax, his syllabic lines and cascading stanzas—all are impossible to imitate or mistake for anyone else's. At sixty, he has become one of our truly indispensable poets." —Thomas Swiss, The Southern Review 2000, 184 pages |
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When writing of Guyana or islands in the Dutch West Indies, Laurence Lieberman excavates, explores, even exhumes the essence of the place. In the flora and fauna, in the rural cafés and ruins of churches and crypts, in the taste of iguana soup and the look of light through stained glass, Lieberman unfolds an exquisite atlas of the senses. The awe of encounter, the raw impact, beauty, and sometimes the brutality of both the surroundings and the people fuel this poetry. Whether meeting an iguana hunter, a bricklayer, a witness to the United States–led Grenada invasion, or a classical composer, Lieberman gives the reader a vivid combination of his own wit and surprising observations mingled with the speech of each character. 1998 |
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In his ninth book, Laurence Lieberman creates a narrative mosaic of the eastern Caribbean islands from St. Eustatius in the eighteenth century to the island of Grenada after the United States–led invasion. 1996, 144 pages |
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