Controlling the Silver

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© 2005 by Lorna Goodison All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America ∞ This book is printed on acid-free paper. 1 2 3 4 5 c p 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Goodison, Lorna. Controlling the silver : poems / by Lorna Goodison. p. cm. — (Illinois poetry series) isbn 0-252-02971-2 (cloth: acid-free paper) isbn 0-252-07212-x (pbk.: acid-free paper) I. Title. II. Series. pr9265.9.g6c66 2004 811'.54—dc22 2004011935 In memory of Ann Harvey Moran and Joan Moran To Myrna and Amlaké Acknowledgments Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following, in which some of these poems have appeared or been broadcast. The Bomb Commonweal Calalloo Wasafiri BBC Radio CBC Radio Radio Mona, University of the West Indies Special thanks to Lincoln Faller, Linda Gregerson, James Jackson, and Lester Monts at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. To Swithin Wilmot and Barry Chevannes at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus. To Tom Lynch and Kate McAll. To Tekla Mekfet for the mother of Jamaican art. To Denis Valentine for the butterflies and the cover. To Ted Chamberlin, and Meg, Geoff, Sarah, and Jeremy. To Liz and Bob Food. To Elaine Melbourne, to my son Miles Goodison-Fearon, and to Paulette and Howard Goodison. ...