Controlling the Silver
Publication Year: 2004
Published by: University of Illinois Press
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
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pp. ix-xii
Island Aubade
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pp. 1-3
Over the Guinea Grass Piece
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pp. 4-
Dear Cousin
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pp. 5-6
Excavating
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pp. 7-
Ode to the Watchman
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pp. 8-9
Our Ancestral Dwellings
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pp. 10-
Recalling the Fourteen Hour Drive from Kingston to Lucea, 1952
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pp. 11-
The Wandering Jew and the Arab Merchant on th Island of Allspice
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pp. 12-13
Passing the Grace Vessels of Calabash
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pp. 14-
So Who Was the Mother of Jamaican Art?
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pp. 15-
Jah The Baptist
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pp. 16-
Poison Crab
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pp. 17-
Let Us Now Praise Famous Women
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pp. 18-
Fool-Fool Rose is Leaving Labor-in-Vain Savannah
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pp. 19-
Rainstorm is Weeping: An Arawak Folk Tale Revisited
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pp. 20-
Aunt Alberta
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Aunt Rose
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The Burden Bearer
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pp. 23-
Travelling with Photographs of Our Generations Flanking St. Christopher on the Dashboard
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pp. 24-
Hosay
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pp. 25-
Creation Story: Why Our Island is Shaped Like a Turtle
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pp. 26-27
These Three Butterflies and One Bird We Interpret As Signs
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pp. 28-30
The Geovangelist
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pp. 31-32
Don C and the Goldman Posse
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pp. 33-
Back To Where We Come From
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pp. 34-
O Priates Yes They Rob I
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pp. 35-36
Tombstones
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pp. 37-38
Where the Flora of Our Village Came from
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pp. 39-
By the Light of a Jamaican Moon
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pp. 40-
Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer
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pp. 41-
Hirfa of Egypt
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pp. 42-
What of Tuktoo the Little Eskimo?
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pp. 43-
Arctic, Antarctic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian Ocean
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pp. 44-
Louis Galdy of the World's Once Wickedest City
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pp. 45-
Remittance Man
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Black Like This?
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pp. 47-
Pleasant Sunday Evenings
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pp. 48-
Passing the Empty Playground
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pp. 49-
What the Witnesses Saw When They Entered the Balm Yard
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pp. 50-
This River Named by Our Great-Grandfather
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pp. 51-52
River Mumma
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pp. 53-
The River Mumma Wants Out
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pp. 54-
The Wisdom of Cousin Fool-Fool Rose
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pp. 55-57
In the Field of Broken Pots
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pp. 58-
But I May Be Reborn As Keke
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pp. 59-
At Harmony Hall We Buy an Egyptian Blue Cecil Baugh Mug
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pp. 60-
Change If You Must Just Change Slow
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pp. 61-
All the Way to Kingston We Recall Urban Legends
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pp. 62-
Whatever Became of MaMud?
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pp. 63-
The Yard Man: An Election Poem
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pp. 64-
Controlling the Silver
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pp. 65-68
Old Blue Nun
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pp. 69-
Making Life
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pp. 70-71
Your Ice Art, Michigan
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pp. 72-
Broadview
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pp. 73-
Missing the Goat
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pp. 74-
Spirit Catcher
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pp. 75-
The Crying Philosopher and the Laughing Philosopher
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pp. 76-
All Souls Day
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pp. 77-
Hard Food
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pp. 78-
Breadfruit Thoughts
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pp. 79-
Rites
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pp. 80-
Carnevale
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pp. 81-82
Aunt Ann
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pp. 83-
The Liberator Speaks
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pp. 84-85
Palm Roses
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pp. 86-
At the Keswick Museum
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pp. 87-88
Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
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pp. 89-
Half Moon Bay
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pp. 90-
Arriving at the Airport Once Called Idlewild
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pp. 91-
Apollo Double Bill
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pp. 92-93
Guernica
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pp. 94-95
I Buy My Son A Reed
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pp. 96-
I Saw Charles Mingus
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pp. 97-
A Simple Apology
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pp. 98-
E-ISBN-13: 9780252091384
Print-ISBN-13: 9780252029714
Page Count: 120
Publication Year: 2004
Series Title: Illinois Poetry Series
