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<p>Toronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary journals, and a vital link between the literary worlds of Canada and Jamaica; <i>Certifiable</i> presents a maturing vision of women's lives in both of her homes. <i>Certifiable</i> celebrates experience shot through with affection, family attachment, and madness.</p><p>The poems in the first section, "Just a Likl Loving," explore the truths hidden beneath the ideal of love: love as comfort, love as currency, love as deathtrap. "Sister Sequence" embraces the fullness of sisterhood, from the conceptual "sister muse" as a power in the world to the ambivalent love among flesh-and-blood sisters. "Certifiable," the final section, springs from intimacy with little and big madnesses.</p><p>The rhythms and rhymes of the creole soundscape crackle through <i>Certifiable</i>. Mordecai's deft hand wordplay flows through and beyond standard English and the Creole continuum to reveal the characters in <i>Certifiable</i> and record their experiences.</p>
Pamela Mordecai is a Jamaican Canadian author whose first short story collection, Pink Icing, received rave reviews and whose debut novel, Red Jacket, was shortlisted for the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work has been described as “brilliant” by Kamau Brathwaite and as “immaculately crafted” by Kwame Dawes and has been shortlisted for the James Tiptree Jr. Memorial Award (now the Otherwise Award) for writing in the speculative fiction or fantasy genre. She has written nine collections of poetry, including a trilogy about the life of Jesus in Jamaican Patwa (de book of Joseph, de book of Mary, and de Man) and a collection of new and selected poems, A Fierce Green Place. With her late husband, Martin, she also wrote a reference work called Culture and Customs of Jamaica. A recipient of the Institute of Jamaica’s Centenary and Bronze Medals for her contributions to Jamaican literature, she blogs at pamelamordecai.ca and writes the occasional critical essay. Two Days in Mayaro is her second collection of stories.
- ISBN-13
- 9780864922953
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 1 May 2001
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 100
- Dimensions
- 216 x 140 mm
- Language
- English
