Between the Fence and the Forest
Publisher: Peepal Tree Pr Ltd
Published: May 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781900715270
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; General; Poetry
Description: "Comparing herself to a douen, a mythical being from the Trinidadian forests whose head and feet face in different directions, Jennifer Rahim's poems explore states of uncertainty both as sources of discomfort and of creative possibility. The poems explore a Trinidad finely balanced between the forces of rapid urbanisation and the constantly encroaching green chaos of tropical bush, whose turbulence regularly threatens a fragile social order, and whose people, as the descendants of slaves and indentured labourers, are acutely resistant to any threat to clip their wings and fence them in"--Publisher's website.