A Light Song of Light

✍ Scribed by Kei Miller

• Book ID: 100188335
• Publisher: Carcanet Press
• Year: 2012;2010
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 33 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1847779247

✦ Synopsis

Kei Miller's work was acclaimed by the distinguished Jamaican writer Olive Senior as 'Some of the most exciting poetry I've read in years ... An extraordinary new voice singing with clarity and grace.' A Light Song of Light sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale, praise songs and anecdotes, blending lyricism with a cool wit, finding the languages in which poetry can sing in dark times. The book is in two parts: Day Time and Night Time, each exploring the inseparable elements that together make a whole. Behind the daylight world of community lies another, disordered, landscape: stories of g.;Cover; Title Page; Epigraph; Table of Contents; Day Time; Twelve Notes for a Light Song of Light; This Zinc Roof; Some Definitions for Song; Until you too have journeyed; Some Definitions for Light (I); If this short poem stretches; Notice to the Public, Please Observe; Some Definitions for Light (II); The Longest Song; A Short Biography of the Singerman; Brochure; What Can Be Accommodated; The Singerman's Papa; The Colour of the Singerman's Songs; In Defence of Obeah; Questions for Martin Carter; Call this apocalyptic propaganda if you must; For Cornelius Eady; Thinkin Home.