Oracabessa

by Lorna Goodison

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Oracabessa is a book of risky journeys, mappings and re-mappings, as the poet navigates place, history and imagination. Goodison travels to Spain and Portugal, to Canada ('Winter has landed') and back to the Hope Gardens of her childhood in Jamaica; even to the Old Testament world of Ruth and Hagar. Throughout her journeys she hymns the artists who inspire her: El Greco, John Donne, Billie Holiday, 'Miles Marley Mozart'. At the end of travel, she is, as she says, 'Still on the road to Heartease'.
  • ISBN10 1847772420
  • ISBN13 9781847772428
  • Publish Date 31 October 2013
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 30 August 2023
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Carcanet Press Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 157
  • Language English