
A Light Left On
Rachel Manley's poems explore loss and grief in a life-enhancing way. They confront this most universal of experiences with an exactness to feeling, in language which is simple on the surface and complex in its depths. Death is no terrifying abstraction, but part of life and love, humanised through its associations with the particular. Life is always present in the richly evoked Caribbean world.
Price
£7.99
Author(s)
Rachel Manley
ISBN number
9780948833557
Pages
56
Price
£7.99
Classification
Poetry
Country setting
Jamaica
Publication date
01 Jun 1993
Rachel Manley's poems explore loss and grief in a life-enhancing way. They confront this most universal of experiences with an exactness to feeling, in language which is simple on the surface and complex in its depths. Death is no terrifying abstraction, but part of life and love, humanised through its associations with the particular. Life is always present in the richly evoked Caribbean world.
'Enchanting... like Chopin preludes.' - Louis Simpson.
'A Light Left On... reveals the rich lyricism of her verse, the musicality of her voice, and the clarity and enduring optimism of her vision'. - The Caribbean Writer.
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