The Face of Water
Subtitle: New and Selected Poems
By: Shara McCallum
Publisher: Peepal Tree
Published: November 2011
Place of publication: Leeds, UK
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781845231866
Subjects: Poetry
Description: Since the publication of her first collection, The Water Between Us, Shara McCallum has steadily created a rich body of poems that have mined the rich deposit of emotional and intellectual capital found in her background of multiple migrations, culturally and geographically. McCallum's poems reflect her rooting in a Jamaican experience unique for her childhood in a Rastafarian home filled with reckless idealism, the potential for profound emotional pathology, and the grounding of old folks traditions. Her work has explored what it means to emerge from such a space and enter a new world of American landscapes and values. The Face of Water collects some of Shara Mccallum's best poems, poems that establish her as a poet of deft craft (and craftiness), whose sense of music is caught in her mastery of syntax and her ear for the graceful line.