num_pages: 72
description: These poems grow out of the persistence of Brown's memories of childhood in rural Jamaica - the twilight word of duppies and rolling calf and minds inhabiting both Protestantism and obeah. After thirty years in North America, the stubborn endurance of these haunting presences comes to signify a complex sense of ancestry and spiritual continuity. They represent, too, a last line of defence against the homogenising sweep of American cultural imperialism. Whilst 'belonging is yesterday's faint memory', these poems are intensely alive, sometimes meditative, sometimes angry.
language: English
title: Duppies
titlecomplete: Duppies
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Peepal Tree Press Ltd