Opal Palmer Adisa Ordre des livres
L'écriture d'Opal Palmer Adisa est profondément ancrée dans la richesse de la langue et de la culture jamaïcaines. Elle infuse sa poésie et sa prose avec la "nation language", un choix qui lui permet d'exprimer des émotions avec une intimité et une vivacité sans précédent. À travers son œuvre, elle célèbre non seulement les sensibilités caribéennes, mais incite également les lecteurs à s'engager plus profondément avec la langue, en découvrant ses couches subtiles et ses textures vibrantes.
- 2023
- 2023
The story explores Precious's emotional journey as she navigates the contrasting worlds of her cherished life in Jamaica with her grandmother and her desire to reunite with her mother in the United States. This internal conflict highlights themes of family, belonging, and the challenges of adapting to new environments. Precious's longing for connection drives the narrative, making her experiences relatable and poignant as she grapples with the complexities of love and identity.
- 2022
The Storyteller's Return: Story Poems
- 120pages
- 5 heures de lecture
"Opal Palmer Adisa has perfected a woman's grammar, and language rooted in the landscape of Jamaica, a landscape that she apprehends as compelling as a woman's body: complex, vibrant, dangerous and beautiful-and her poems emerge with a thick, sensual intensity. In these poems, Adisa brings her sharp eye and rich language to bear on her return to the Jamaica of beauty, sexual and physical violence, loss, and memory-a place where "no one feels safe", and yet a place where the arias of "maaanin-maanin" are restorative. Adisa summons the spirit of women to guide her through memory and the stories in poems that are vulnerable, fierce and revealing. Opal Palmer Adisa has been writing successfully for years, and yet in The Storyteller's Return, one has the sense of a first and complete voice, a way of seeing that is urgent and powerful. Adisa's grandmother tells her, "fi always have a good home/ dash you pee across you doorway". In the woman's grammar, transgression is liberation. This is an affirming and necessary meditation on the contradictory meaning of home by a gifted poet and storyteller. "Home," writes the storyteller, "will always remain unfinished". Kwame Dawes, author of The Mountain and the Sea.