The blessing of rain and other poems
By: by Tregenza A. Roach.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781434331625; 9781434331618
Subjects: Country life -- Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Poetry; Saint Kitts and Nevis -- Poetry.; Charlotte Amalie (V.I.) -- Poetry.; Virgin Islands of the United States -- Poetry.
Genres: Poetry; Poetry.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: I. Ancestors and Memory. The times of Sunday; title: The fowl keeper; title: The Song of Adolphous; title: Annie Mason Garvey 1915; title: What to tell a child about the surrender; title: The kingdom of cloth; title: Mahogany birds and desert flowers; title: People the landscape; title: The gifft; title: II. Passages. Three women and a purple parasol; title: The year of white; title: Provoking the sea in his Name; title: Ghosts; title: Lazuli of upper love; title: Things which have been broken; title: The ballad of the Seventh Day; title: The season of memory; title: Praise song 1997; title: III. The Natural World. These things if love and beauty; title: In praise of the chicken mother; title: Ode to a silk cotton tree in Frederiksted; title: Morning: Hospital Ground; title: The Sugar Song; title: Parasols over Charlotte Amalie; title: - Sunday morning English Harbour; title: The life of water; title: IV. The Spiritual Life. The blessings of rain; title: The manufactured optimist; title: The final flowering; title: Singing of hell and heaven; title: The bird man of Brookman Road; title: Street dance J'ouvert morning; title: How I came to believe in light; title: V. Love and Other Essences. Love again; title: Body and flame; title: How to speak of a love with no name; title: Of love and culture; title: All this is love; title: The life of a woman; title: You; title: Love lessons in fire.