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- Author: Althea Romeo-Mark
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1979850798
- ISBN-13: 9781979850797
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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In this remarkable collection, Althea Romeo-Mark uses poetry like a lance, a magnifying glass, and a soothing balm. Her verse gives the reader a close-up view of life as an immigrant in the Caribbean and details her experiences in England after fleeing the violence of the Liberian civil war.
Romeo-Mark grew up in the West Indies, where her family drifted from island to island looking for work. In a series of gripping poems, she takes us inside the uneasy tapestry of immigrant cultures that form the Caribbean islands: a pastiche of hunger and oppression that makes survival a daily struggle.
She goes on to explore the problems encountered by women in a society that is male dominated, unstable, and unjust; by immigrants displaced from their homes and their ways of life; and by families committed to each other no matter what comes.
Divided topically, The Nakedness of New also includes three revealing personal essays and a section focused on her maternal grandmother, a controversial personality who held the family together.
Through it all run the themes of resiliency, heart, and dedication to living-all things found in ordinary people if only you take the time to look for them.
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- Author: Althea Romeo-Mark
- Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- ISBN-10: 1979850798
- ISBN-13: 9781979850797
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 0.9 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
In this remarkable collection, Althea Romeo-Mark uses poetry like a lance, a magnifying glass, and a soothing balm. Her verse gives the reader a close-up view of life as an immigrant in the Caribbean and details her experiences in England after fleeing the violence of the Liberian civil war.
Romeo-Mark grew up in the West Indies, where her family drifted from island to island looking for work. In a series of gripping poems, she takes us inside the uneasy tapestry of immigrant cultures that form the Caribbean islands: a pastiche of hunger and oppression that makes survival a daily struggle.
She goes on to explore the problems encountered by women in a society that is male dominated, unstable, and unjust; by immigrants displaced from their homes and their ways of life; and by families committed to each other no matter what comes.
Divided topically, The Nakedness of New also includes three revealing personal essays and a section focused on her maternal grandmother, a controversial personality who held the family together.
Through it all run the themes of resiliency, heart, and dedication to living-all things found in ordinary people if only you take the time to look for them.
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