Against Linearity
In a vision which constantly sees the 'doubleness' of people, places and things, Earl McKenzie both confronts such experiences as the discovery that the very same 'farmers/who sing on choirs' are those who became a lynch mob and beat a passing stranger to death, and celebrates the rich variousness of a landscape and a people who 'fear the straight line/for it is as rigid as death'. McKenzie's poems speak directly and without pretension, but in their often quirky observations and ability to find resonant images from the everyday, they are arresting and memorable.
Price
£7.99
Author(s)
Earl McKenzie
ISBN number
9780948833632
Pages
56
Price
£7.99
Classification
Poetry
Country setting
Jamaica
Publication date
01 Jun 1993

'The particular images from nature that inform his work, along with his keen insight into human hearts, make Against Linearity a book to cherish' - The Caribbean Writer.

Earl McKenzie was born and lives in Jamaica. In addition to Against Linearity he is the author of A Boy Named Ossie and Two Roads to Mount Joyful & Other Stories."

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Earl McKenzie

Earl McKenzie was born in rural Mount Charles, St. Andrew Jamaica in 1943. He attended Oberlin High School and Mico Teachers College. Then he lived for some years in the USA and Canada where he obtained a BA and MFA from Columbia University and a Ph D from the University of British Columbia.
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